Male Reproductive System page 35

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Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli, Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
LIGHT-MICROSCOPIC HISTOLOGY ATLAS

15. Male Reproductive System

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15.35 Seminal vesicle

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The top drawing shows a cross section of the simple tubular gland that composes a seminal vesicle.

Delimited by a tunica muscularis (M), the mucosa shows numerous branching and anastomotic folds forming spaces that connect with each other and with a central lumen (*). The details of the framed area are shown in the drawing Figure 15.36.

The folds of the mucosa have a core of lamina propria, made up of a well-vascularized connective tissue. They are lined with a simple columnar epithelium composed mainly of secretory cells and of a few basal cells.

These two drawings reproduce the two histological fields shown in Figure 15.36 and Figure 15.37.

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