GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Elastic cartilage contains collagen and an abundance of elastic fibres that are arranged into a threadlike network in which chondrocytes can be found.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hyaline cartilages possess oxytalan fibers in the extracellular matrix that surrounds the chondrocytes, whereas elastic fibers were localized in the fibrous layer of the perichondrium that encloses the cartilage. Elaunin fibers could be detected in the transition (chondrogenic) layer adjacent to the perichondrium.

Detailed explanation-3: -2.5. 2 Fibrocartilage. In fibrocartilage, the matrix is dominated by a dense regular network of bundles of collagen fibers arranged parallel to each other in several layers. The bundles in adjacent layers run in different directions which produces a strong material with moderate elasticity.