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Anatomy & Physiology
Study Activities for Understanding Tissues

Here are sites for learning about tissues:

The Atlas of Microanatomy and Histology
Hosted by the Virual Hospital, it was created by Ronald A. Bergman a professor of Anatomy at the University of Iowa. NOt only does this atlas contain hundreds of labeled slides of the various tissue types, but it links to discussions of health related content for each targeted to health care providers and consumers.
Muscle Tissue SLides and Plates
Extensive and beautiful, this collection of muscle tissue specimens has samples of all sorts of muscle and muscle structures.
Connective Tissue Slides and Plates
Epithelial Tissue Slides and Plates
Nerve Tissue Slides and Plates

The Basic Four tissue Types
This site from Southern Illinois University features a detailed outline characterizing each of the four major tissue types along with a good number of slides showing typical specimens of each tissue subcategory. This is a must see site.

Slide Labs of Tissues and Organs
This site holds an extensive collection of slides showing tissue sections at various magnifications of the major tissue types taken from a variety of locations in the body. It is set up as a typical medical school histology lab in which you can view the images with and without labels.

An Outline of the Four Major Tissue Types
This link from the Animal Sciences at Southern Illinois University offers a concise outline about tissues and their characteristics. It also links to some descriptive sites at the National University of Singapore, but when I tried these, they didn't work.

Histology Pages
These are the University of Delaware Histology Pages created by Professor of Biological Sciences, Roger Wagner, for a course in Mammalian Histology. Links from this page connect to a rich set of photomicrographs of tissues and cells.

Here are additional useful histology (the study of tissues) links from the Jaydoc Histoweb:

Jaydoc HistoWeb Home
Epithelia
Muscle
Connective Tissue


Last updated Tuesday September 5, 2006
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