Reticular connective tissue

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 reticular cells. The fibers are thin branching structures.

  1. ^ "reticular tissue" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
  2. ^ Strum, Judy M.; Gartner, Leslie P.; Hiatt, James L. (2007). Cell biology and histology. Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 83. ISBN 0-7817-8577-4.
  3. ^ "Blue Histology - Connective Tissues". School of Anatomy and Human Biology - The University of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2008-12-05.