Digestive System Tissues (Click on image for enlargement)



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1 Tongue with papillae 20X
2  Tongue with papillae 100X
3  Tongue: papilla with taste buds 400X
4  Esophagus 40X
Esophagus 100X
Esophagus 400X
Stomach mucosa 40X
Stomach mucosa: gastric pits and mucous neck cells 100X



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9   Gastric gland showing parietal and chief cells  (400X)
10  Gastric mucosa (40X)
11  Gastric pits in mucosa (400X)
12  Gastric mucosa and submucosa (20X)
13  Deep region of gastric mucosa showing gland and muscularis mucosa (submucosa also visible)
14  Superficial region of gastric mucosa showing gastric pits and upper glands
15  Small intestine cross section (20X)
16  Small intestine xs showing mucosa and submucosa tunics




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17  Small intestine xs showing mucosa, submucosa, and muscularis externa tunics (20X)
18  Small intestine duodenum xs (20X)
19  Small intestine duodenum xs (40X)
20  Small intestine duodenum xs (100X) showing Brunner's glands in submucosa
21  Small intestine ileum xs (20X)
22  Small intestine ileum xs (40X)
23  Small intestine ileum xs (100X)
24  Small intestine ileum xs (400X) mucosa showing villi, crypts, goblet cells, etc.




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25  Small intestine ileum showing Peyer's patches in submucosa (100X)
26  Small intestine ileum showing Peyer's patches in submucosa (400X)
27  Small intestine jejunum  (20X)
28  Small intestine jejunum  (100X) showing mucosa and submucosa tunics
29  Small intestine jejunum  (40X) showing mucosa, submucosa, and muscularis externa tunics
30  Small intestine jejunum  (100X) showing mucosa with intestinal crypts and glands (submucosa partially visible)
31  Small intestine jejunum  (100X) showing mucosa with villi, intestinal crypts and glands
32  Small intestine jejunum  (100X) showing villus of mucosa


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33   Colon  (20X)
34   Colon (40X)
35   Colon (100X)
36   Colon (100X)
37   Colon (400X) showing intestinal glands and submucosa tunic
38   Colon (400X) showing goblet cells in intestinal glands
39   Liver (40X)
40  Liver lobule (100X)



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