Learning the Histology of the Human Body Chapter 4

  Histology includes the study of the tissues of the human body.  This unit will require you to carefully examine microscope slides along with the guide of your textbook and lab book.  This is a DIFFICULT SECTION, BUT you have many tools which will aide your successful learning. You must choose a system that works and launch into your study each day.  You will find additional help outside your text at the prenhall website, EAP CD(E, D, G)  (NOTE:  You may find it easier to just run the CD from your computer.).  (Click Start, Run, Browse for your CD.  Select Start_EAP3e_CD from the files displayed.), ADAM Interactive Anatomy (LRC Lab). PLEASE NOTE:  The website is NOT for your textbook, but the content is identical (human body is a human body is a ...) so the activities will be the same., ADAM Interactive Anatomy (LRC Lab).  Basically you will be studying FOUR  tissue categories: You should be able to identify each of the following , know their cell components and where they are located in the body. 

At the end of the study of this system, the successful student will be able to:

Recognize general characteristics in each of the four basic tissue groups listed below; how they function. P 84-85  ie.what they do and where they are found

• Epithelial tissue  P 86-91

• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/electronmicroscopy/magnify1/index.html

Simple Squamous  Simple Cuboidal Simple Columnar Pseudustratified Ciliated Columnar  Stratified Squamous Transitional (No microscope work)	1 & 5	2	3
			4

• Recognize by name and location the following Intercellular connections of Epithelial cells. (pages 85-86).

  • Gap

  • Tight

  • Desmosome

• Connective tissue P.92-100 

  Loose Connective (Areolar) Dense Fibrous (white fibrous) Hyaline Cartilage (Elastic & Fibrocartilage (no microscope work)) Adipose Bone(compact cs) Blood

  bone blood

• Muscular tissue  P. 100-102 

  Skeletal Smooth Cardiac

  skeletal cardiac

• Nervous tissue  P 102-104  (you may find it useful to see this at Dr Mansfield's site)

  • Neuron :  Motor sensory  

In addition, from the lab studies, beginning on Page 12,the student will be able to:

*NOTE:   Page Number's:  Indicates Visual Analogy Guide to Anatomy

                 Plate Number:   Indicates the Dissection Guide with Color Plates of Anatomy Models

Identify by microscopic examination the specific tissues listed below by structures, function and location

• Epithelial  P. 13-24  and Plates 1-8

  • Simple Squamous

  • Simple Columnar

  • Simple Cuboidal

  • Stratified Squamous

  • Pseudostratified Ciliated Columnar 

• Connective tissue  P. 25-41

  • Areolar (loose Connective)  Plate 9

  • Adipose  Plate 10

  • Dense Connective  Plate 12

  • Hyaline Cartilage  Plate 15

  • Bone  Plate 18

  • Blood  text p. 347(a)

• Muscle Tissue  P. 42 -47

  • skeletal-smooth-cardiac (one slide)  Plates 19-21

• Nerve Tissue  Plate 22  and page 48-49

  • (you will not be held responsible for this in lab this semester)

This unit tends to be "difficult" to study so approach it as if you were a pathologist in a hospital lab making a tissue diagnosis on someone important to you!  Look at plates 1 -23 in your lab manual as if you were seeing them under a microscope to master this material.  On the lab midsemester and/or final you will actually see these tissues under a microscope and you will then identify the tissue by name and location in the human body and write this information on the blanks next to the slide number.   For the theory exams you will be tested with questions similar (in fact some will be VERY similar) to those found on the Prenhall website's multiple choice questions for this chapter)

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The following sources of information will help you master the  the tissue system and the related structures for which you are responsible.

1. Prenhall website:    The interactive labeling exercises have great potential to help you learn the many components of the tissue system

   1. Review the quizzes

   2. including matching

   3. and most importantly, labeling exercises.

2. Textbook:  Read the objectives.  Use them as a guide when you 

   1. skim read the chapter to get a feel for the content and how the different topics are related

   2. reread the chapter look for the critical points and preparing for lecture

   3. study the chapter to learn the critical content

   4. review the chapter preparing for the quizzes and exams

3. Lecture:    Attend all lectures.  Use them to 

   1. identify important points

   2. ask questions of points not well understood in the text

   3. measure your learning comprehension

4. Lab:     Attend your scheduled lab and take advantage of open times to continue to study  
               Use your labs to correlate text structures to actual specimens in lab

5. EAP CDrom:  Interact with the materials on your CD  (Note:  Use E: links for a cd-rom in Drive E and use D: links for a cd-rom in Drive D, Use G:links in the open computer lab in the LRC).   

   Please NOTE:  When you click on the link, you will be asked what you want to do with the program.  Select RUN if using Netscape or OPEN if using Internet Explorer.  DO NOT DOWNLOAD.  You may find it easier to just run the CD from your computer.  (Click Start, Run, Browse for your CD.  Select Start_EAP3e_CD from the files displayed.  Once the CD is running, Select the current chapter from the Main menu.  Do the exercises, animations, and tests that you think will best help you master the material.

   1.  E:  CD-ROM materials on Drive E
   2.  D:  CD-ROM materials on Drive D
   3.  G:  CD-ROM materials on Drive G  (in the LRC open computer lab)

6. You may find the glossary helpful for terminology understanding

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Last modified: January 19, 2005 by Cynthia Herbrandson © Copyright 1999, Kellogg Community College. All rights reserved.