1. Histology: The Nervous System By Andrew W
Histology: The Nervous System By Andrew W. Parsons Copyright 2000, All Rights Reserved.
Material is in logical order: see texts, lab. outline for characteristics
To advance to next slide:
-click mouse or “page down”
To return to the previous slide:
- press “page up”

2. Nervous Tissue A smear from the spinal cord Two cell types: -neurons
-neuroglia

3. Nervous Smear - 100X
Neurons

4. Nervous Smear - 450X
Neurons
Glial Cell
nuclei

5. The Spinal Cord -Grey matter: -neuron somas -White matter:
-myelinated fibers

6. The spinal cord: 100X Grey matter White matter Neuron somas Myelinated
nerve fibers

7. A Peripheral Nerve
-Myelinated fibers
-Nodes of Ranvier

8. Myelin
Nerve fiber (axon)
Node of Ranvier

9. The Cochlea -Scala vestibuli -Scala tympani -Cochlear duct
-Organ of Corti

10. Organ of Corti
Tectorial
membrane
Bipolar neuron
somas in
spiral ganglion
Scala vestibuli
Vestibular membrane
Scala tympani
Cochlear duct
Hair cells
Basilar membrane

11. The End Presentation & Photographs by Andrew W. Parsons
Copyright 2000, All Rights Reserved.