Connective Tissues 1. Note pink, wavy collagenous fibers and the dark thin elastic fibers. Mast cells are dark blue to purple due to Azure stain, while macrophages are speckled black due to phagocytized carbon particles. See dermis of skin. Elastic 7 Elastic ligament.
Elastic fibers appear as wavy, refractile lines embedded in a dense regular connective tissue.
White and brown adipose tissue. White adipose tissue stained with osmium tetroxide. Bielschowsky's silver stain. The slides listed in this section are not the only ones in which these types of cells may be seen, but they are the ones where the cells can be seen most clearly. Cell Slide Comments 1.