6-year MD PROGRAM LIST OF MICROSCOPE SLIDES AND ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS

 

LIST OF MICROSCOPE SLIDES REQUIRED DURING THE PRACTICAL EXAM:

Connective tissue proper 

  • mesentery (loose connective tissue), collagen and elastic fibers
  • yellow adipose tissue, Sudan III staining (lipids stained)
  • yellow adipose tissue, lipids washed out (paraffin technique)
  • mast cells in mesentery, metachromatic staining
  • tendon

Cartilage and bone

  • hyaline cartilage
  • elastic cartilage stained for elastic components
  • compact bone, decalcified longitudinal section
  • compact bone, decalcified cross section
  • compact bone, ground longitudinal section
  • compact bone, ground cross section
  • spongy bone (cancellous bone)
  • intramembraneousossification
  • endochondralossification

Blood

  • blood smear

Muscle tissue

  • smooth muscle layer
  • skeletal muscle, longitudinal section
  • skeletal muscle, cross section
  • cardiac muscle, longitudinal section
  • cardiac muscle, cross section

Nervous tissue

  • multipolar nerve cells in spinal cord stained for Nissl bodies
  • isolated, myelinated nerve fibers, osmium staining
  • peripheral nerve
  • posterior (dorsal) root ganglion
  • spinal cord, Kluver-Barrera staining
  • cerebellar cortex, Kluver-Barrera staining
  • cerebral cortex, Kluver-Barrera staining 
  • fibrous astrocytes in white matter of the brain

Vascular system

  • mesentery, precapillary, nerve bundle and postcapillary venule
  • artery and vein
  • muscular artery stained for elastic components
  • elastic artery stained for elastic components
  • aorta
  • vena cava
  • vena saphena

Lymphatic system

  • lymph node
  • silver-stained lymph node
  • spleen
  • silver-stained spleen
  • thymus
  • palatine tonsil

Respiratory system

  • olfactory mucosa
  • trachea
  • lung

Oral cavity

  • lip
  • tongue – filiform and fungiform papillae
  • tongue – foliate papillae
  • tongue – circumvallate papillae (von Ebner’s glands)

Salivary glands

  • parotid gland
  • sublingual gland
  • submandibular gland

Alimentary canal

  • esophagus
  • stomach – fundus
  • stomach – parietal cells in fundic glands
  • pylorus
  • duodenum
  • jejunum
  • ileum
  • large intestine
  • appendix

Glands of the alimentary canal

  • liver
  • silver-stained liver
  • dye-injected liver
  • gallbladder
  • pancreas

Integument

  • thick skin
  • thin skin (hairy skin), cross sections of hair follicles
  • thin skin (hairy skin), longitudinal sections of hair follicles
  • apocrine sweat gland

Endocrine system

  • pituitary gland (hypophysis)
  • thyroid gland
  • parathyroid gland
  • adrenal gland
  • pancreas – islets of Langerhans
  • pineal gland

Urinary system 

  • kidney
  • ureter
  • urinary bladder

 Male reproductive system

  • testis
  • epididymis
  • ductus deferens (vas deferens)
  • prostate gland

 Female reproductive system

  • ovary (ovarian follicles, corpus luteum, corpus albicans) 
  • oviduct (Fallopian tube)
  • uterus – body and fundus
  • uterus – cervix
  • vagina
  • placenta
  • extraplacental fetal membranes
  • lactating mammary gland

Organ of vision

  • anterior part of the eye
  • retina
  • eyelid


 

LIST OF STRUCTURES TO BE IDENTIFIED IN ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS DURING THE LAB 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 folders used during the labs and in the textbook.

  1. Cell – structural components of cell nucleus, nuclear pores, all organelles
  2. Epithelial tissue: brush border, cilia, basal lamina, intercellular junctions
  3. Connective tissue: collagen fibrils, plasma cell, macrophage, mast cell
  4. Bone: osteocyte, osteoclast, ruffled border
  5. Blood: neutrophil, eosinophil, monocyte, lymphocyte, blood platelet
  6. Muscular tissue: components of the sarcomere (bands and lines), T-tubule, muscular triad, intercalated disc in cardiac muscle
  7. Nervous tissue: unmyelinated and myelinated nerve fibres in cross-section, synapse
  8. Circulatory system: capillary vessel (continuous or fenestrated) in cross-section
  9. Respiratory system: air-blood barrier, pneumocyte type II
  10. Urinary system: filtration barrier, proximal & distal tubule cell
  11. Digestive system: taste bud, parietal cell, intestinal absorptive cell, goblet cell, sinusoidal and canalicular domains of hepatocyte, pancreatic exocrine cell
  12. Endocrine system: steroid-producing cell, beta cell of the pancreatic islet, DNES (enteroendocrine) cell in epithelium
  13. Male reproductive system: Leydig cell with Reinke crystals, spermatozoon tail in cross-section
  14. Female reproductive system: primary ovarian follicle with oocyte, zona pellucida and follicular cells, placental barrier
  15. Eye: photoreceptors (outer/inner segments), lens fibers