Anatomy A215 Virtual Microscopy
Dense Regular Connective Tissue
   
 

This section of TENDON shows the orderly and linear organization of the collagen fibers of dense regular connective tissue. The fragmented nature of the tissue (the slits seen throughout) is an artifact of preparing the tissue for sectioning as a microscopic slide. In the living state, all the bundles of collagen fibers were tightly held together.

Here we see the bright pink bundles of collagen that make up the bulk of the tendon. The little oval-shaped blue structures are the fibroblast nuclei.

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