List of structures required for identification in electron micrographs during the practical exam:
The electron micrographs presented during the lab exam will be slightly different from those shown at the labs. All the micrographs listed below can be found in the textbook.
- Cell – structural components of cell nucleus, nuclear pores, all organelles
- Epithelial tissue: brush border, cilia, basal lamina, intercellular junctions
- Connective tissue: collagen fibrils, plasma cell, macrophage, mast cell
- Bone: osteocyte, osteoclast, ruffled border
- Blood: neutrophil, eosinophil, lymphocyte, monocyte
- Muscular tissue: components of the sarcomere (bands and lines), T-tubule, muscular triad, intercalated disc in cardiac muscle
- Nervous tissue: unmyelinated and myelinated nerve fibres in cross-section, synapse
- Circulatory system: capillary vessel (continuous or fenestrated) in cross-section
- Respiratory system: air-blood barrier, pneumocyte type II
- Urinary system: filtration barrier, proximal & distal tubule cell
- Digestive system: taste bud, parietal cell, intestinal absorptive cell, goblet cell, sinusoidal and canalicular domains of hepatocyte, pancreatic exocrine cell
- Endocrine system: steroid-producing cell, B-cell of the pancreatic islet, DNES (enteroendocrine) cell in epithelium
- Male reproductive system: Leydig cell with Reinke crystal, spermatozoon tail in cross-sections
- Female reproductive system: primary ovarian follicle with oocyte, zona pellucida and follicular cells