Muscle Tissue page 15

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

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3.15 Smooth muscle fibres

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Section of the muscular coats of the small intestine stained with silver nitrate to show in black the reticular fibres (type III collagen).

On the left the smooth muscle cells are cut longitudinally and on the right they are cut transversely.

In this thick section of smooth muscle cells cut transversely, the cells appear completely surrounded by black reticular fibres (vertical arrows).

On the left the reticular fibres form networks, seen in face view (oblique arrows), at the surface of the muscle cells.

Stain: Silver
Magnification: ×1000

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