Urinary System page 18

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27

13.18 Kidney: Outer medulla

Version française

Section of the outer medulla of a kidney.

This field shows transverse sections of thick acidophilic segments of Henle’s loops (A) and of a few thin limbs of Henle’s loops (B).

The larger pale tubules showing cuboidal cells with distinct lateral cell membranes are collecting ducts (C).

Also labelled are some small vessels (V) containing red blood cells.

Stain: H–E
Magnification: ×500

The text and images of this Histology Atlas, by Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli & Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada Licence and cannot be modified without the written permission of the authors. Use of any text or images must carry an acknowledgement which includes a link to the original work.