#histology

[surfacemaiden]

microscopic images

brain cortex;

brain cortex with better vision of the neurons;

mammalian gland;

trachea;

cerebellum;

also cerebellum. both images are beautiful i couldn't choose just one;

sublingual gland

edit: muting because help why is this so getting many notes? i'm just very surprised but i appreciate this

[vultures-nest]

im studying histology and i just like the little guys that work so hard to keep our organisms up and running

[theoddvet]

Which contestant should be declared the winner of the yeast eating contest?

a) Gobble guts with undeniably the most yeast out of everyone

b) The multinucleated cell that died because of how many yeast it ate

c) The multinucleated cell that started eating spectators AND yeast

d) The multinucleated cell that went rogue and ONLY ate ONE spectator

e) The single macrophage who ate one yeast and is now 99% yeast

f) The spectators who decided to join in and have a go

g) The multinucleated giant cell who has more nuclei than sense (and yeast)

h) The multinucleated giant cell that ate so many yeast that it disappeared

i) The multinucleated giant cell who consumed arguably the largest yeast

Voting ended onJul 24, 2024

[gershel-draws]

“Neurons as seen through the microscope of Golgov Klimt” (2025).

Golgi-stained neuron histology slides have always reminded me somehow of Gustav Klimt’s paintings. So here are some neurons à la Klimt. Inspiration and reference below

[otterly-delicious]

today in histology we saw little flowers and big galaxies

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

i am SO SO SO curious about how long it would've taken for dinosaurs to grow!!! What do we know about how non-avians would've gone about this, especially those colossal sauropods?

I know that in modern dinosaurs this timeline is skewed a bit since a lot of them only spend one to a few months in a nest before fledging. However flightless species like emus and emperor penguins can take around a year to reach that full size. Would the non-avian dinosaurs have been similar?

So we actually can track dinosaur growth via histology!

Bones grow like tree trunks and we can count the rings!

Different dinosaurs had different growth patterns! I don't remember all of them off the top of my head, but T. rex (for one example) had a growth curve remarkably similar to people!

[rexxiewebdotmd]

>>GASPS. IM ALIVE I PROMISE TAKE MY HISTOLOGY INSPIRED SPARKLEDOG I LOVE YOU

[oblivious-tomato]

SVSS as bone marrow cells

so i have a histology exam in 2 days, hence:

SJ is a red blood cell, slowly losing everything that made him him, to be just a device, a hollow vessel filled with something much more suited to its role in the new narrative

YQY is a basophil. he is so full of guilt (granules) you cant even see his nucleus :(( he is powerful, he can make you choke on your breath! (your bronchi will CLENCH on nothing and you WON'T breathe). looks unassumingly little, and very hard to find, but when you see him under your microscope YOU KNOW ITS HIM. THIS DUDE HAS SO MANY GRANULES (arrows) IN HIM.

LQG is an eosinophil. he WILL fuck up wild beasts (parasites) and may induce anaphilaxis (die in a cave as you try to keep him alive)

QQQ is a limphocyte B. she will have the wheel-barrow nucleus (very stylish) and will dunk on you verbally (create antibodies that will coat your ass and deliver it straight into the hungry hungry mouth of a macrophage)

SQH is a megacariocyte. he creates blood pellets. he is biggg :)) and he is a daddy to many. often underappreaciated and overworked busy creating blood pellets.

MBJ is a big fat cell next to him. He is the manager of the place, giving energy and regulates the bone metabolism. He may look as a cool dude just hanging out there without doing much, but in fact, he owns the place.

SY is limphocyte T. Namely Treg. In theory, he may have started here, in the bone marrow, but in truth he matured somewhere far, far away (Thymus). You see, he doesn't really know how he ended up here! He thinks he is just a little dude, there's so many of people like him in the whole organism, hah! Unbeknownst to him he is the main regulator of the whole immune response. He is what keeps everything in check, he is what keeps every other cell calm. When he disappears, everything goes badly. Cell kills cell, dog eats dog. : (

LBH is a poor little myeloblast as a disciple. He is unipotent, you see... there is only one way he could mature! Only one cell he could become! At that, SY knows, LBH is about to exape all and become a tumor :(.

LBM is just a simple Neurophil. He is very powerful, but he is just a little dude, serving alongside his queen (Treg SY). If SY tells him no bloody fights, there will be no bloody fights :) only back massages for Shizun.*

LBG, of course, is a tumor. He became so twisted and so powerful you can't even tell what cell he originated from. He conquered all else, and so the marrow remains empty, just like his heart. *i found a study that says that Treg cells could supress phagocytosis by neutrophils, which is a key function of them. How trustworthy is the study? I do not know.