Hyaline Cartilage-Tracheal Cartilage

Cross-section through the tracheal yoke showing an isogenous group of cartilage cells (chondron , territory). The chondrocytes , which are located in the cavernous spaces in the ground substance, contain large fat drops 2 . The nucleus 1 in the cartilage cell at the lower right is cut. There are collagen fibrils in the cartilage matrix, but they are masked.

1 Cell nucleus

2 Fat droplet

3 Cartilage capsule

4 Territorial matrix

Electron microscopy; magnification: × 1000

References

Kuehnel, W.(2003). Color Atlas of Cytology, Histology, and Microscopic Anatomy. 4^th edition . Institute of Anatomy Universitätzu Luebeck Luebeck, Germany . Thieme Stuttgart · New York .