... tissue, composed of collagenous and longitudinally orientated numerous elastic fibers, accounted for the most predominant constituent. It comprised 77.3 to 78.2% of the total volume in the proximal three urethral quarters. The vascular plexus was most prominently developed in the proximal two urethral...

...N.L. O’Dell; M. Sharawy; B.C. Starcher; C.B. Pennington; R.P. Cudiaa This in vitro study correlates morphologic and radioimmunoassay (RIA) findings on the effects of elastase on the elastic fibers that are found in the rabbit craniomandibular joint (CMJ) articular disk. Articular disks were removed...

...A.M. Ali; Mohamed> Sharawy; N.L. O’Dell; G. Al-Behery Elastic fibers are important components of the connective tissue that attaches the articular disk of the craniomandibular joint (CMJ) to the skull and mandible. Biopsies of the articular disk proper and bilaminar zone (BZ) tissues from patients...

...Norris L. O’Dell; Mohamed Sharawy; Catherine B. Pennington; Richard K. Marlow° This study describes the general distribution of putative elastic fibers in the connective tissues that comprise the articular disk and some of the adnexal tissues of the rabbit temporomandibular joint. Joints were...

... the light microscope. Except for the fibrous layer in the perichondrium of tracheal hyaline cartilage, where elastic fibers were found, no elastic fibers could be detected in the cartilages studied. However, cartilaginous tissues contained oxytalan and elaunin fibers. A distinct pattern of distribution...