1. Components: ---small gland or endocrine cell: islet of pancreas and corpus luteum ---endocrine gland: Thyroid gland Parathyroid gland Adrenal gland Pituitary gland(hypophysis) Pineal body

1. General description: ---Components: nerve cell: neuron Glial cell: neuroglial ---Function: Neurons : receive the stimulation, conduct the nerve impulse Glial cell: support, protect and insulate, nourish neurons

① Lymphocyte: a. T-lymphocytes: cytotoxic T cell: Tc C- kill the tumor cell, virus infective cell and foreign cell helper T cell: Th C- promotes activity of BLC and Tc C suppressor T cell: Ts C –regulate the function of BLC and TC

1. General description (1) components: ---cell: muscle fiber-myofiber elongated thread-liked Sarcolemma Sarcoplasm sarcoplasmic reticulum: SER

---skin is the largest organ of the body, it constitutes about 16% of body weight ---its total surface area is about 1.2-2.2 m2 ---function: protection, sensory reception, excretion and thermoregulation

---Closed tubular system ---Blood circulatory or cardiovascular S ---Lymph vascular S

1.General feature: (1) contain more cells and less extracellular ground substance (2) Polarisaton: ---free outer surface: face air or other things ---basal surface: face underlying CT, havebasement membrane (3) Avascularity,but innervation: ---no blood vessels ---rich in nerve terminals

1. Cartilage: organ=Cartilage tissue+perichondrium

《组织学与胚胎学 Histology and Embryology》课程PPT教学课件讲稿（英文版）Chapter 05 Blood and Hemopoiesis

1. General features: （1) small number of cells and large amount of extracellular ground substance （2) extracellular is composed of fibers and amorphous ground substance-matrix （3) all of them originate from mesenchyme￾embryonal CT （4) have functions of connection, supporting, protecting, nutrition, defence and repairing