Contents Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli, Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
LIGHT-MICROSCOPIC HISTOLOGY ATLAS
     5. Vessels
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    5.17   Artery Version française
Transverse section of an artery.

The following elements are labelled:

  • In the intima: the endothelium (arrowheads) and the wavy acidophilic internal elastic lamella (blue arrow)
  • In the media: from six to eight layers of smooth muscle cells with their elongated nuclei (N)
  • In the adventitia: the collagen and elastic fibres, both acidophilic, which are indistinct from each other, and the nuclei of fibrocytes (F)

Stain: H–­­E
Magnification: ×900

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