Figure 5
Epiligament-ligament scar at the sixteenth day after injury. a) epiligament (EL), consisting fibroblasts (colored in blue), collagen fibers (colored in red) prolonging to endoligament (arrow heads) enveloping the collagen bundles of the ligament (L) (light microscopy). Bar 50 μm; b) electron micrograph of collagen fibers in the EL organized in bundles with different orientations (col) and collagen fibers between bundles, some of them with irregular striation pattern (arrow heads) and also included in the bundles of regularly orientated collagen fibers on the sixteenth day after injury × 12000.