Muscle Tissue page 4

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

3. Muscle Tissue

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3.4 Striated muscle

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Cross section of a group of skeletal muscle fibres from the trachea.

In this muscle, the muscle cells have a circular profile. Their cytoplasm is packed with acidophilic myofibrils (*) seen in cross section. The nuclei (N) of the fibres are located at the periphery of their cytoplasms.

Between the muscle fibres is a small amount of connective tissue with a few fibrocytes (arrowheads). A capillary (Ca) is indicated.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×600

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