Explains how to recognise a tendon under H&E staining as dense regular connective tissue, with thick parallel collagen bundles stained pink and rows of flattened tenocytes with long dark nuclei between them. Covers the sparse cell and vessel content, the star-shaped fibroblasts seen in cross-section, and a comparison with smooth muscle, whose nuclei sit inside pink cytoplasm rather than between fibres.
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Topic 108 of 127 in the MU Sofia syllabus for Cytology (Dental Medicine, Year 1). The free AceMed note covers it in 1 section, about 102 words (1 min of reading).
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Introduction
Introduction
A tendon is dense regular connective tissue: thick collagen bundles all running in one direction, so it resists pull along that line.
