Muscle Tissue page 7

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

3. Muscle Tissue

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3.7 Myotendinous junction

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Section of the tongue showing a longitudinal section of two striated muscle fibres (*) inserted on a dense connective tissue.

The pointed conical extremities of the muscle cells (left) are closely attached to the dense type I collagen (C). In this section, the longitudinal views of the individual myofibrils are visible (arrowheads), together with their A- and I-bands, and the Z-lines in the I-bands.

The nuclei of muscle fibres (N) and of fibrocytes (F) are indicated.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×700

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