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Slide 07
Elastic tissue, cross section and longitudinal section, unspecified source. Verhoeff - van Gieson stain for elastin.
The probable source for this specimen is a mammalian elastic ligament, such as ligamentum flavum (joining adjacent vertebrae, conferring some "spring" to the spine).
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