“…First, the intracellular collagen may reflect an accumulation of non-excreted newlysynthesized collagen (Welsh, 1966;Trelstad, 1971;Allegra & Broderick, 1973;Renteria & Ferrans, 1976;Levine et aI., 1978;Henell et at., 1983;Birk & Trelstad, 1984;Michna, 1988;Enwemeka, 1991). Second, they may reflect phagocytosed fibrils (Ten Cate, 1972;Listgarten, 1973;Beertsen et al, 1974;Ten Cate & Deporter, 1975;Garant, 1976;Beertsen & Everts, 1977;Yajima & Rose, 1977;Rose et al, 1978;Shore & Berkovitz, 1979;Svoboda et al, 1979a,b;Rose et al, 1980;Melcher &Chan, 1981;Yamasaki et aI., 1981;Fell et al, 1986).…”