Dense connective tissue, additionally called thick stringy tissue, is a kind of connective tissue with filaments as its primary network element. The strands are basically made out of sort I collagen. Swarmed between the collagen strands are lines of fibroblasts, fiber-shaping cells, that create the filaments. Thick connective tissue shapes solid, rope-like structures, for example, ligaments and tendons. Ligaments append skeletal muscles to bones; tendons associate issues that remains to be worked out at joints. Tendons are more stretchy and contain more flexible strands than ligaments. Thick connective tissue additionally make up the lower layers of the skin (dermis), where it is orchestrated in sheets.It is named either dense regular connective tissue or dense irregular connective tissue.
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