Connective Tissue: 

 

 

bind structures, provide support and protection, serve as frameworks, fill spaces, store fat, produce blood cells, protect against infections, and help repair tissue damage.

 

​Connective tissue cells are farther apart than epithelial cells, and they have an abundance of extracellular matrix (eks between them.

 

​This extracellular matrix is composed of protein fibers, and a ground substance consisting of nonfibrous protein and other molecules, and fluid.