Human tissues detective

bone tissue

striated muscular tissue

glandular epithelium

nervous tissue

dense regular connective tissue

adipose tissue

cartilaginous tissue

cardiac muscular tissue

smooth muscular tissue

covering and lining epithelium

"I am usually attached to bones and so I am manly used in movement, such as when you wave your hand, and smile. My cells can be very long, sometimes over 30 cm, and can contain many different nuclei. They look like sausages with marked transverse dark and light bands. Your brain usually tells me what to do."

"I work without the control of your brain, but rather operate on my own without instructions. I am responsible for the contractility of hollow organs, such as blood vessels, the astrointestinal tract, the bladder, or the uterus. My cells are spindle shaped and they don’t have striations, or stripes. My nucleus is cigar shaped."

"I protect the body from cold. My cells can store so many fat that they look round and cloudy and their nucleus are pushed to the outer edge of the cytoplasm, stuck to the cell membrane. "

"Touch the tip of your nose or the top of your ear and you will find me. My cells are smooth and rounded and look similar to eyeballs floating in viscous and flexible matter that it is used by the bones so they don't rub together."

"I grow in multi-layered columns that look like growth rings in a tree. My tiny cells are on the outside of each ring and they have thin finger- like extensions that extend through the hard layers. Calcium makes me rigid, which allows me to support body weight. The protein collagen makes me flexible. "

"I have large star-shaped cells with long finger-like extensions that make connections and receive input messages from surrounding cells. Electric pulses are continously running along me."

"My cells are like bricks in a wall and leave no space among them. I line the surface of the organs and body, as well as the hollow cavities inside it."

"I beat to the rhythm of your emotions. My cells are also banded, but don't get wrong, they shorten without us having to counsciously think about it. "

"I form cords to connect muscles and bones, and straps to join bones. I am made up of waving fibers."

"My cells form long tubes where I produce and release different substances, like saliva or sweat. "