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2012, MicronCitation Excerpt :Analyzing the MTJ interface, terminal myofibrils bundles presented at their extremity, elongated sarcoplasmic projections with finger-like processes, surrounded by interdigitations that represent sarcoplasmic invaginations (sarcolemma folds) from the extracellular matrix, with shearing aspect that characterizes the MTJ region (Ciena et al., 2010). According to Tidball (1994), invaginations promote the folds formation, which are the extracellular matrix projections named as interdigitations, placed between the projections of sarcoplasmic-shaped “fingers” that provide functionally, a better relationship between the myofibrils bundles to connective tissue, increasing the contact area in the muscle-tendon interface. However, it was observed in the examined samples, beyond the traditional MTJ components, atypical ultrastructural characteristics of MTJ, not yet reported in the literature.
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