Help with Histology

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Hello all. I'm currently taking A+P I this semester and I'm having a bit of a hard time with the histology section. I undertand the basics on paper, but when it comes to identifying the different tisses under a microscope, I have no clue as to what I'm looking at! They all just look like pink blubs/bubbles to me.

The only advice my teacher has is to do a "site map with q+a's" of all the characteristics of each tissue and narrow it down. I have a hard time even doing that.

Does anoyone have any suggestions/websites that could help me identify what I'm looking at? How do you figure out which is squamous, psedostratified, areolar ct, cuboidal, adipose ct, and so on? I do have bone down though! Those little tree trunk rings :o) Thanks so very much!

Chrissy

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This book saved my life !! I bought it used online in A&P 2 and I wish I would have had it in A&P 1...

http://www.amazon.com/diFiores-Histology-Functional-Correlations-Lippincott/dp/0781770572

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adipose tissue has cells looking like tiles on the floor. the nuclei are obvious to see because they are on the sides of the cells.

simple squamous, cuboidal, and columnar have single layer cells. they are all epithelial cells. squamous are flat, and look like tiles on the floor but have nuclei on the center of the cell. Cuboid are the cubes in a row, and clumnar are the cloumns taller. all of their nuclei are in the same level. pseudostratified epithelia have nuclei in many levels of the cells but are all single layer of cells since they all touch the basal surface. hence the "false" look. transitional epithelia have cells in layers and look expandable. Stratified squamous, cuboidal, and columnar are all the same but in multiple layers...

as for connective tissue, blood is probably the most simple. they are a bunch of red circles and white blood cells have darker and larger nuclei. the others, well, it'd take me longer to explain since I am being lazy now this saturday night... good luck dude!

-the cool man, S. Snake Killer... (I tutor).

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Get a histology atlas so that you can see pictures of what they look like.

Look at a ton of slides... look a multiple slides of the same tissue so that you can see different samples. Range around a given slide so that you can see different images.

When you're looking at an image, ask your teacher to come verify what you see.

It took me awhile to get comfortable identifying tissues under a microscope.

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Interestingly, check out youtube....that helped me!

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Thank you everyone for the advice! Youtube, huh, never thought of that. I will have check it out. Thanks!

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All I can say is to look at it over and over til it sticks. For visual identification purposes, keep your defining characteristics short and simple.

I am taking A&P right now too and I just started the tissues chapter. I took it 16 yrs ago and I remember doing the lab practical of identifying the slides. We all met outside the lab afterward and agreed we all knew bone but were hoping we got everything else right as well.

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I also don't get tissues at all. :(

I found this today though. http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/ap/histology_mh/start_histology.html

Hope it helps!!!

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I know this thread is a few weeks old, but I am preparing for a histology exam on Wedns. evening. I feel very overwhelmed! We have been told that we will have 30 slides to identify. In addition, there will be written questions about the slides as well. Our instructor doesn't go over, or make available, the slides in class. We are expected to go to the science lab on our own time and look at them. I'm using a histology atlas to prepare b/c we have been on Fall break this past week and the campus has been closed. Hoping to get to the lab on Monday and look over some slides to try my hand at identifyig them.

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Our lecture class does not include the slides. Our lab does, however. Also, just last night we had "open lab" where we could go for 2 hours...all the instructors were there to answer questions and clarify any areas you have trouble with. You could play with bones and full skeletons, look at all the slides over and over again that you are expected to identify, see models for skin, glands, etc... On the 20th we have a major midterm coming in lab over the first 7 chapters of our book. This open lab was a great resource! In lecture we have a 75 question test this Tuesday on chapters 4-7 for Marieb, 8th ed.

Have you looked online for sites that have "slides" you can look at? Try this...

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/ap/histology_mh/start_histology.html LOL! I think it may be the same site the other person posted for you!

Good luck on your test!

I know this thread is a few weeks old, but I am preparing for a histology exam on Wedns. evening. I feel very overwhelmed! We have been told that we will have 30 slides to identify. In addition, there will be written questions about the slides as well. Our instructor doesn't go over, or make available, the slides in class. We are expected to go to the science lab on our own time and look at them. I'm using a histology atlas to prepare b/c we have been on Fall break this past week and the campus has been closed. Hoping to get to the lab on Monday and look over some slides to try my hand at identifyig them.
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We just took our lab test yesterday on the tissues and I am not sure of my grade yet I think I did pretty good. Our book had great pictures of the different tissues at first they all looked the same but once you know the location and function that seemed to help. Not sure if some suggested it already but if you go to google, select images and the put type of tissue you are looking for there are many slides available. Once you have looked at them enough you can eventually tell the difference. I think repitition is key for studying for A&P.

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I had my histology test yesterday and it was confusing. I went to the lab and spent hours looking at the slides and I still had trouble identifying some of them. Oh well, I know I got all the general histology q's right! LOL

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