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SKIN ELASTIC TISSUE FROM A STUDY OF A CONNECTIVE TISSUE NAEVUS AND RECENT WORK ON CONNECTIVE TISSUES
Author(s) -
Musso L. A.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1967.tb01150.x
Subject(s) - connective tissue , anatomy , pathology , medicine
S ummary The molecular as well as the electronmicroscopic appearance of elastic tissue is reviewed. The findings in the connective tissue naevus reported in this paper of parallel, partly granular fibrils, with the granules to some extent opposite each other, in the abnormal elastic fibres are described. Their significance for the fine structure of normal skin elastic fibres is discussed. With the aid of the suggested mode of formation of a similar elastomer, resilin, as well as what constitutes form in biological tissue, the implication of the above findings for the formation of elastic tissue in the skin is considered.