Mucous connective tissue
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Mucous connective tissue (or mucous tissue) is a type of connective tissue found during fetal development.
It is most easily found as a component of Wharton's jelly.
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[edit] External links
- Dictionary at eMedicine Mucous+connective+tissue
- Dorlands/Elsevier t_12/12810419
- Histology at USC ct/c_22
- Overview at umdnj.edu
- Histology at ucsd.edu
 | This anatomy article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
| classification: proper (loose/areolar, dense, adipose, reticular) embryonic (mucous, mesenchymal) specialized (cartilage, bone, blood)
extracellular matrix: ground substance (tissue fluid) fibers (collagen, reticular fiber, elastic fibers) cells: resident (fibroblast, adipocyte, chondroblast, osteoblast), wandering cell |
