| Dense regular fibrous connective tissue is used in tendons (which connect a skeletal muscle to a skeletal bone), ligaments (which connect a bone to a bone), and aponeuroses (which are flat sheets of connective tissue). Their primary protein fiber is collagen, so they appear to have waves of fibers that go in one direction on a microscope slide. Also, the nuclei of the fibroblasts (the cells which make the collagen), appear to be flattened and bend with the waves of collagen. This is not the answer that I was looking for, however! Lets return to the original question. |