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III-3 (5) Slide 15, Muscle-Tendon Junction. High power view of tendon (left) and skeletal muscle (right). Note nuclei of fibroblasts are thin with scanty cytoplasm. Eosinophilic (pink) collagen fibers are in the extracellular matrix. Nuclei of skeletal muscle fibers are ovoid and arranged around the periphery of the cytoplasm.