Urinary System II

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Transverse section of human ureter. H&E. 30x. camera lucida drawing. Note: 1. The tunica adventitia; 2. the stellate profile of the lumen. Hammersen. p. 154 Fig. 344.

Transverse section of monkey ureter. H&E. 35x Adv=adventitia AT=adipose tissue BV=blood vessels Muc=mucosa Mus=muscularis Ser=serosa Ross, et al. p. 592 Plate 97 Fig. 1.

Transverse section of monkey ureter. H&E. 160x Note: some surface cells are binucleate. Adv=adventitia AT=adipose tissue BV=blood vessels CT=connective tissue Ep=transitional epithelia Muc=mucosa Mus=muscularis SM(c)=circularly arranged layer of muscularis SM(l)=longitudinally arranged layer of muscularis (inner and outer layers) Ross, et al. p. 593 Plate 97 Fig. 2.

Human urinary bladder. H&E. 18x. camera lucida drawing Note: errata report - there is no submucosa in the urinary bladder. Hammersen. p. 155 Fig. 346.

Hammersen, F. (1980) Histology, A Color Atlas of Cytology, Histology and Microscopic Anatomy 2nd Ed. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (A translation of Sobotta/Hammersen (1979) Atlas der Histologie des Menschen. Urban & Schwarzenberg, München, Germany.)