Endoneurium
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| Endoneurium | |
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| Transverse section of human tibial nerve. | |
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| Nerve structure | |
| Gray's | subject #183 728 |
| MeSH | Endoneurium |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | e_09/12332510 |
The nerve fibers are held together and supported within the funiculus by delicate connective tissue, called the endoneurium.
It is continuous with septa which pass inward from the innermost layer of the perineurium, and shows a ground substance in which are imbedded fine bundles of fibrous connective tissue, primarily collagen, running for the most part longitudinally.
It serves to support capillary vessels, arranged so as to form a net-work with elongated meshes.
It is found in other places too, such as surrounding the Schwann cells on the peripheral side of the transitional zone on the auditory nerve.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Fraher JP (2000). "The transitional zone and CNS regeneration". J. Anat. 196 ( Pt 1): 137–58. PMID 10697296.
[edit] External links
- Endoneurium at eMedicine Dictionary
- Histology at BU 21301loa - "Ultrastructure of the Cell: myelinated axon and Schwann cell"
- Histology at BU 21401loa - "Ultrastructure of the Cell: arteriole and peripheral nerve"
- Histology at OU 1_03
- Histology at University of California, Los Angeles
- Diagram at Howard University
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