Vessels page 11

Contents

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

5. Vessels

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 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

5.11 Artery

Version française

Longitudinal section of a large muscular artery.

In this vessel the intima (I) is thick. Between the endothelium and the acidophilic internal elastic lamella (oblique blue arrow) are some smooth muscle cells arranged longitudinally (arrowheads).

The media (M) is composed of closely packed, transversely cut smooth muscle cells. Several of them show cross-sectional profiles of their nuclei.

The adventitia (A) shows a dense connective tissue containing collagen, elastin and fibrocytes.

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.