Each muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called the epimysium. Fascia, connective tissue outside the epimysium, surrounds and separates the muscles.
What is the function of connective tissue in muscles?
- In the body, connective tissue surrounds each muscle fiber, each bundle of muscle fibers (called a fascicle), and several fascicles to form a muscle. The connective tissue wrapping is essential to force transduction. At the end of the muscle, the connective tissue continues as a tendon which usually attaches the muscle to bone.
What is connective tissue made of?
- The Connective/Supporting Tissue. The connective tissue is an assemblage of specialized supportive cells in a gel-like extracellular matrix of organic material and fibres in which the extracellular materials predominate.
What are the fibres of supportive tissue?
- The fibre components of the supportive tissue are formed from polymerized elongated proteins and confer tensile strength and resilience on the tissue. Two main types of fibres are encountered in the connective tissue, viz. collagen and elastic fibres.
What type of tissue is adipose tissue?
- ADIPOSE TISSUE Adipose tissue is composed mainly of adipocytes and loose connective tissue. The adipocytes of adipose tissue synthesizes triglycerides from glucose and receives triglycerides from the liver and chylomicron from the blood stream.