Where would you find dense regular collagenous connective tissue?

Question

Could it be a lymphnode or a nerve?

Answer 1

"Dense connective tissue" is the term for those tissue layers that are formed of strong collagen bands. This is the material of tendons, ligaments and muscle fascia. To the eye, it appears white and one can see the parallel fibers running through it.

Nerves are comparatively strong, but this is because of a layer called the "perineurium" which is a sheath which wraps around a collection of many individual axon fibers travelling together. Perineurium is almost like dense connective tissue because it has a fibrous collagen element, but I am not of the belief that it is classified specifically in that way.

Lymph nodes are completely different. These are collections of lymphocytes bundled together with very little collagen or intercellular matrix. Dense connective tissue looks like mostly protein fiber under the microscope with large areas not containing cells... lymph nodes are all cells with big nuclei.

I hope that helps!

Answer 2

Dense Regular Collagenous Connective Tissue

Answer 3

dense regular connective tissue would be tendons. nerve is a different sort of cell entirely, not a type of connective tissue, and lymph is a sore of alternative circulatory system.