Cells + Muscles

Squamous Epithelium

Function: protection
found in skin, oral cavity, esophagus, anal canal, vagina

Cuboidal Epithelium

Function: protection
found in sweat glands, salivary glands, mammary glands

Columnar Epithelium

Found in bronchi of lungs, digestive tract, bladder, male urethra, ducts of some glands

Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium

Function: protection and secretion
found in trachea and bronchi of lungs

Transitional Epithelium

Functions: permits expansion and recoil after stretching
found in urinary bladder, renal pelvis, ureters

Connective Tissue

Ordinary
Bone
Blood
Cartilage
Adipose

Chondrocyte

Function: secrete collagen or elastic fibers
found in cartilage cell

Hyaline Cartilage

Functions: support and flexibility
found in joint surfaces, bronchi, larynx, rib cage, gives structure to trachea

Elastic Cartilage

Flexible
found in ear and nose

Fibrocartilage

Found in between interverted discs

Skeletal Muscle

Responsible for body movement, support, maintaining body temperature
Found in deltoid, pectorals, biceps, triceps

Cardiac Muscles

Has very slow contractions, is involuntary, and autorhythmic

Smooth Muscles

Slowest to contract and relax, invluntary, under autonomic nervous system control
Found in walls of hollow organs, passageways, tracts of respiratory, urinary, and reproductive systems, eyes and skin

Tendon

Function: attaches muscles to bone
made up of epimysium, perimysium, endomysium

Fascia

Connective tissue that covers the epimysium

Actin

Protein that makes up thin filament of sarcomere

Myosin

The protein that makes up the thick filament of the sarcomere

Sarcomere

The contractile unit of the myofibril of striated muscle
Only found in skeletal and cardiac muscle