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  2. Reticular fiber - Wikipedia

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    Reticular fibers, reticular fibres or reticulin is a type of fiber in connective tissue [1] composed of type III collagen secreted by reticular cells. [2] They are mainly composed of reticulin protein and form a network or mesh. Reticular fibers crosslink to form a fine meshwork (reticulin).

  3. Reticular connective tissue - Wikipedia

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    Reticular connective tissue is a type of connective tissue [1] with a network of reticular fibers, made of type III collagen [2] (reticulum = net or network). Reticular fibers are not unique to reticular connective tissue, but only in this tissue type are they dominant. [3] Reticular fibers are synthesized by special fibroblasts called ...

  4. Reticular formation - Wikipedia

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    The fibers of this tract arise from the caudal pontine reticular nucleus and the oral pontine reticular nucleus and project to lamina VII and lamina VIII of the spinal cord. [citation needed] The lateral reticulospinal tract (medullary) is responsible for inhibiting excitatory axial extensor muscles of movement. It is also responsible for ...

  5. Connective tissue - Wikipedia

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    [23]: 171 They are found in the walls of large blood vessels and in certain ligaments, particularly in the ligamenta flava. [23]: 173 In hematopoietic and lymphatic tissues, reticular fibers made by reticular cells provide the stroma—or structural support—for the parenchyma (that is, the bulk of functional substance) of the organ.

  6. Reticular cell - Wikipedia

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    A reticular cell is a type of fibroblast that synthesizes collagen alpha-1(III) and uses it to produce extracellular reticular fibers.Reticular cells provide structural support, since they produce and maintain the thin networks of fibers that are a framework for most lymphoid organs.

  7. Tendon cell - Wikipedia

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    Tendon cells, or tenocytes, are elongated fibroblast type cells. The cytoplasm is stretched between the collagen fibres of the tendon. They have a central cell nucleus with a prominent nucleolus. Tendon cells have a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum and they are responsible for synthesis and turnover of tendon fibres and ground substance.

  8. Sarcoplasmic reticulum - Wikipedia

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    The sarcoplasmic reticulum is a network of the tubules that extend throughout muscle cells, wrapping around (but not in direct contact with) the myofibrils (contractile units of the cell). Cardiac and skeletal muscle cells contain structures called transverse tubules (T-tubules), which are extensions of the cell membrane that travel into the ...

  9. Thalamic reticular nucleus - Wikipedia

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    Most input comes from collaterals of fibers passing through the thalamic reticular nucleus. The outputs from the primary thalamic reticular nucleus project to dorsal thalamic nuclei, but never to the cerebral cortex. [7] [8] This is the only thalamic nucleus that does not project to the cerebral cortex. Instead it modulates the information from ...