5 Best websites on histology

Here are the 5 best sites on histology on the web.

Iowa's Histology Laboratory
Featuring you:

THE CELL
EPITHELIUM LAB
CARTILAGE
CONNECTIVE TISSUE LAB
BONE AND BONE FORMATION
NERVOUS SYSTEM
EYE AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES
EAR
INTEGUMENT
MUSCLE
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
LYMPHOID SYSTEM
BLOOD AND HEMATOPOIESIS
URINARY SYSTEM
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
ORAL CAVITY (For Dental Students)

Suny Downstate's Histology Manual
About the Histology Lab Manual

Developed by:
John Lewis, Ph.D.
George Ojakian, Ph.D.
Brett Laurance, M.S.
Greg Conyers

Histology Learning System

What Histology Learning System has to tell you:
Success in a histology course depends on the student's understanding of the course objectives. These are:

To learn microscopic anatomy of the tissues and organs of the human body.

To learn histological terms and concepts for the purpose of identification and precise communication.

To develop a systematic thinking process as a means to identify histological preparations correctly.

To understand the relationship between microscopic structure and function.

To understand the preparative procedures used in histology and how they affect the visual image.

By methodically reviewing images in this database you will learn to identify cells, tissues, organs, and parts of organs correctly.
You learn to do this, not by memorizing the images, rather, by learning how morphological features relate to function and by understanding which features are most diagnostic of organ systems and organs of the systems. In medicine, as in histology, this intellectual process involves art as well as science. The art lies in knowing which questions to ask, and in what order, in your systematic process of elimination.



JayDoc Histo Web
What The World is Saying About The JayDoc HistoWeb:
"Great images, and a great web site!"
James Williams
Indiana University School of Medicine

"...it is a treasure house of anatomical information."
The Scout Report
University of Wisconsin

"As a first-time histology student it is very helpful to me."
Katherine Potter
University of Louisville, KY

"...even old doctors appreciate young talent and medical school humor... Great job!"
Donald Hagen, M.D.
Executive Vice Chancellor
University of Kansas

"It is an outstanding web page, one of the best I've seen. Thanks Milton and Marc!"
A Grateful Teacher
Eldora-New Providence High School

"GREAT site guys! … [I] am excited to use your site for our students' benefit. Thanks for your work on it!!"
Cathy Moewe
OSF Saint Francis Med Ctr, Peoria

"…this histology page is the coolest! [These images] are some of the best I've seen on the Web or elsewhere."
Jay Moore
University of Missouri

"Just visited your page and just loved it.. really awesome job!!!"
Dee Dee Sein
University of Windsor

"Great pages!"
Dr. Ronald D. Fell
University of Louisville

"Wonderful"
Joe Wlostowski
Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY

"Sensacional !!! Wonderful !!!"
Professor Gilberto Santa Rosa
University Federal Fluminense - Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

"Excellent"
Fernando Chuecas, MD
Universidad Catolica de la Santisima Concepcion

"Beautiful images!"
James Ezell
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA

"Could you please send me a picture of a hamster's brain?"
Yasin Davila
Manhattan Center for Science and Math
(Uh, no.)

"We love your pages here in the South as well!"
Jenny Chapman
University of Alabama School of Medicine

"A great help"
Catherine Halcrow
Science Museum - London, UK

And more and more...

Blue Histology
School of Anatomy and Human Biology - The University of Western Australia

Notes
Here you find the links to the combined lecture and lab notes and a short description of how the pages work.

Messages
last updated: 07/08/09
Changes to the WEB pages will be announced on this page. The page also contains my contact details and e-mail address.

MCQ Quiz
Multiple choice questions set by the quiz engine test your ability to recognize cells, tissues, organs and histological features. You can select individual subject areas for the quiz and combine them freely. There is also some coverage of theory and function, but it is not yet comprehensive.

SAQ Quiz
Here you can test your active knowledge, i.e. you have to come up with an answer without "having your pick" like in MCQs. It is a little more challenging, not just for you but also for me. Questions are now available for all tissues, organs and systems. For some areas only a few questions are available but more will come ..... sometime

Large Images
The page provides access to about 440 large images of almost all slides you will be studying. Most of what is visible in the slides under the microscope will also be visible in these images.
The page is seachable by topic, stain, keyword or magnification and allows an optional thumbnail preview.

Sources
This page lists the textbooks I used for the preparation of these pages and briefly comments on some of the books.

VScope
35 simulations explain and let you use the main functions of a teaching microscope. A fair selection of tissues and organs is available for a little on-line microscopy. It is not a real virtual microscope, but it functions better than virtual socks and is marginally less boring. These pages may be phased out soon. Let me know if you need them.
The VScope also contains a brief introduction to Stereology, i.e. methods to perform measurements in histological sections, and two online exercises of commonly used stereological methods - the Cavalieri Estimator and the optical disector / fractionator.

Links
This page contains a short, annotated list of other Histology WEB sites.

Copyright
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