Now, these cells have great contractile strain and they can also resist very high compressive as well as tensile forces. And there are three main types of muscle tissue. We have cardiac muscle tissue we have smooth as well as skeletal muscle tissue and we'll discuss this in more detail when we'll examine the muscle tissue as well as our skeletal tissue. Now let's move on to the third type of tissue known as our connective tissue. So the cells of the connective tissue come in many different forms and have different types of function. So they can basically provide the organism structural support as well as a way for the different cells in the body to interact with one another.