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Connective Tissue
Author(s) -
Sarah Little
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1958.tb86679.x
Subject(s) - connective tissue , medicine , pathology
Collagen Structure Found in Function Stain Type I thick fibrils bundled into fibers bone, ligament, skin, tendon fibrocartilage, LCT, DCT resists tension pink w/H&E b/c of positively charged amino acids red-brown w/silver yellow w/Orcein blue w/Mallory Azan Type II thin fibrils hyaline & elastic cartilage resists pressure don’t see w/Orecin b/c brown proteoglycans camouflage fibers Type III fibrils do not bundle; mesh reticular fibers organ framework brown-black w/silver b/c of glycoproteins Type IV does not form fibrils basement membrane support; filtration barrier