Connective tissue is made from cells, fibers, and a gelatinous material called ground substance. Bone, cartilage, blood, fat, and lymphatic tissue are types of connective tissues.

Diseases of connective tissue include a large number of different disorders that can affect various parts of the body. Here's what you should know.

Their approach will enable other large-scale studies of diverse cell types and comparisons across tissues, including cells from frozen tissue that can be collected from many patients.

Learn more from WebMD about connective tissue disease, including Diagnosis, Types, symptoms, causes of various forms, available treatment options and Prevention.

To link form to function, investigators first used in vitro information to create computational models of various types of neurons and to simulate their signaling patterns.