Connective Tissue page 14

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Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli, Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
LIGHT-MICROSCOPIC HISTOLOGY ATLAS

2. Connective Tissue

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2.14 Dense connective tissue

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Dense connective tissue forming a tendon (right) adjacent to a less dense layer of connective tissue (left).

In the tendon the three collagen fibres (+) are composed of closely packed bundles of type I collagen fibrils parallel to each other. Flattened fibrocytes (F) are rare. The unstained spaces between these collagen fibres are fixation artefacts (*).

Adjacent to the tendon (left), the bundles of type I collagen fibrils appear smaller but are also parallel to each other (arrows). Fibrocytes are more numerous in the less dense layer of connective tissue.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×700

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