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Basic tissues III.

Muscle- and nerve tissues

Norbert Kroly
Skeletal muscle: cross section, 13

Panoramic view
Skeletal muscle: cross sect., 13 (10x) Epimysium (fibrous
elastic dense connective
tissue sorrunding the entire
muscle)

Perimysium (wraps
bundles of muscle fibres -
the "bundles" being known
as fasicles)
Nucl. of muscle fibre or
satellite cell

Endomysium (areolar
connective tissue that ensheaths
each individual muscle fiber. It
also contains capillaries and
nerves)

Skeletal muscle: cross sect., 13 (40x)


Skeletal muscle: longitud. section, 14

Panoramic view
Skeletal muscle: longitud. sect., 13 (10x)

Perimysium
Skeletal muscle: longitud. sect., 13 (40x)

Nucl. of muscle fibre


or satellite cell

Nucl. of fibrocyte

Without diaphragm

With diaphragm Erythrocytes


Smooth muscle: longitud. and cross sections,
12

Panoramic view
Smooth muscle: longitud. and cross sections, 12 (20x)

Venule

capillary

Lymph. vessel

Cross sect.

Longit. sect.
Smooth muscle: longitud. and cross sections, 12 (40x)

Nucl. of smooth
muscle cell

Neurones of plexus
Nucl. of fibrocyte myentericus Auerbachi
Cardiac muscle: longitud., oblique and cross sections, 15

Panoramic view

Area of interest
Cardiac muscle: longitud., oblique and cross sections, 15 (4x)
40x

longitudinal

cross and oblique


Cardiac muscle: cross section, 15 (40x)
Without diaphragm With diaphragm

Blood vessle with


erythrocites

Intercalated discs/ Intercalated discs/


Eberths lines Eberths lines

Cross striations
Nucl. of cardiac
muscle cells
Peripheral nerve: cross section, 72

Panoramic view
Peripheral nerve: cross section, 72 (4x)
Epineurium: outermost layer of
peripheral nerve trunks, consisting
dense irregular connective tissue
Peripheral nerve: cross section, 72 (10x)

Blood vessles

adipocytes

Perineurium:collagenous
connective tissue, which surrounds
the nerve fasciculi and form the major
diffusion barrier within the nerve
Peripheral nerve: cross section, 72 (40x)
myelin sheath
nerve fibre
axon

Endoneurium: delicate
connective tissue in a peripheral
nerve, separating individual nerve
fibres

nucl. of
Schwann cell

nucl. of fibrocyte
Peripheral nerve: longit. section, 73

Panoramic view

epineurium

boundle of fibres
perineurium
Peripheral nerve: longit. section, 73 (4x)
epineurium

perineurium
Peripheral nerve: longit. section, 73 (40x)

myelin sheath

axon
nucl. of fibrocyte

nucl. of
Schwann cell
Spinal/sensory/dorsal root ganglion, 76

Panoramic view
Spinal/sensory/dorsal root ganglion, 76 (10x)

ganglion cells

Peripheral nerve

perineurium
Spinal/sensory/dorsal root ganglion, 76 (40x)

SD

Nissl substance/
Tigroid ganules

L
nuclei of
satelite cells

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