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Fat cells

   

Workbook tasks

Slide 5: Fat cells

H & Sudan IV

This is a specimen of the mesenterium stained to demonstrate fat cells and their nuclei.

Identify:

Macroscopic

  • Spread of the mesenterium.

Microscopic

  • Fat cell nuclei.

  • Lipid filled cytoplasm.

  • Connective tissue septa.

 

Draw and annotate:

A few fat cells to demonstrate their characteristic structure.

 

Reflection:
  1. How do the fat cells appear?
  2. How are the nucleus, cytoplasm and organelles of fat cells arranged?
 

Slides

Analogy

Low magnification

Fat cells
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