Monday 30 December 2013

The structure of an epithelial cell from the small intestine as seen with an optical microscope.

Epithelial cells make up a lot of tissue in the human body- including that of the small intestine. They are eukaryotic cells (nucleus and a variety of organelles) which specialise in absorption and secretion.

With a light (optical) microscope the following can be seen:


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