Exercise 7: The Digestive System

Oral cavity:
1. Oral epithelium, The Lip H&E

Keratinized stratified squamous

Obicularis oris

2. The Tongue H&E

fungiform papilla
Vallate papilla

Photo credit: Roch Bandala

Filiform papilla

Stratified squamous
epithelium

Skeletal muscle

3. The Salivary Glands, Parotid Gland

H&E
Photo credits: Aki Fujikawa/Ronneil
Bilbao
stroma

Excretory
striated
duct duct

Taste bud near

taste pore

Photo credit: Roch Bandala

Serous acinar Intralobular

Serous
parenchyma
glands
secretory cells ducts

4. Submandibular gland H&E

submucosa
Alimentary canal:
Lamina
propria
1. Esophagus
a. Human upper third H&E

Mucous
type glands

b. Human lower third H&E

Muscularis
mucosa

Stratified
squamous

mucosa

submucosa
Muscularis
externa

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adventitia

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2. Human stomach, fundic region - H&E

3. Intestine
a. Mammal
junction section H&E

stomach-duodenum

b. Large

intestines H&E

Photo credit: Tanya Ho

mucosa

submucosa

crypts with
goblet cells

serosa
lamina propria

Photo credit: Mairen Lacerna

muscularis externa

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c. Ano-rectal junction H&E

simple columnar

goblet cells

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internal anal
sphincter muscle

stratified squamous

stratified squamous epithelium

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Photo credit: Tanya Ho

d. Appendix H&E
Accessory glands:
1. Pancreas H&E

Interlobular ducts

connective tissue

Photo credit: Tracy Prado

secretory acini

Islands of Langerhans

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2. Pig Liver, cross section H&E

portal triad

interlobular septum
bile duct
portal vein

hepatic artery

central vein

kidney lobule

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3. Gall bladder H&E

stratified squamous epithelium

Photo credit: Francis Dale

Deiparine

Simple columnar epithelium

Mucosa

Lamina propria

Dense
connective
tissue

muscularis

Answers to Questions:
What type of tissue comprises the submucosa (middle third)?
The connective tissue which composes the submucosa is mostly collagenous fibers with
some elastic fibers.
What is the secretion of each of these cell types: parietal cell, surface mucous cells, and chief
cells?
Parietal cells secrete hydrochloric acid into the lumen to establish an extremely acidic
environment. Surface mucous cells secrete bicarbonate-rich mucus into the gastric surface for
coating and lubrication. Chief cells secrete chymosin/rennin which is a protease that coagulates
milk protein, found in young animals. Chief cells and mucous cells also secret pepsinogen into
the gastric juice which becomes the pepsin in stomach when activated.
Which of these three muscle layers hypertrophies to form the pyloric sphincter?
The middle circular layer of the muscularis thickens to form the pyloric sphincter.
Sources:
University of Michigan Medical School. 2010. Pharynx, esophagus,
<http://histology.med.umich.edu/medical/pharynx-esophagus-and-stomach/>.

stomach.

Richard Bowen. 2014. Gastric secretions. Hypertexts for Biomedical

<http://biology.about.com/library/organs/bldigeststomach3.htm/>.

Sciences.

Maria Theresa A. Elizaga

ZOO115 D3-L

October 17, 2014

Exercise 8: The Respiratory System

1. Larynx, Human, H&E

Tonsil mass

Photo credits: Roch Bandala

2. Mammal Trachea, cross section - H&E

Photo credits: Roch Bandala

Photo credits: Iris Quero

Photo credit: Franics Dale Deiparine

Photo credits: Iris Quero

3. Lung, Mammal
(Monkey)/Human, H&E

Photo credits: Iris Quero

Photo credits: Iris Quero

Photo credits: Iris Quero

What muscle type is the trachealis

muscle made up of?

it is made up of smooth muscle.

Photo credit: Iris Quero