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Slide 08
Mouse tail. This specimen displays extreme tissue shrinkage; most of the empty white space is artefactual.
Everything is present that you might expect in a slice across a mouse tail:
- Skin, hair
- Bone
- Muscle
- Tendon
- Nerves
- Blood vessels
Muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels are all cut in cross section. The vertebra is a symmetrical star-like shape of bone tissue, its hollow filled with bone marrow.
Muscle and tendon have superficially similar appearance (fibers arrayed into bundles), but the collagen fibers of tendons are much more tightly packed together than muscle fibers.
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