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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Muscle Nerve. 2011 Sep 1;44(3):318–331. doi: 10.1002/mus.22094

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Montage of scanning electron micrographs from shortened mouse EDL muscle. Large collagen cables arranged in a slack configuration are visible on the surface of the muscle fiber and integrated with the fiber surface. Coils in the collagen cables may indicate that the cables have a strain relief function (arrow). These large cables are believed to be perimysial in nature while the mesh in the background of the montage (arrow heads) is believed to be endomysial. It is clear that these two levels of ECM are intimately associated.