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Hints for Slide ERG 5.  

The source for this specimen should be obvious (and confidently so), provided you are familiar with the organ it represents.

You should easily see three distinct layers, 1 mucosa, 2 submucosa, and 3 muscularis.  Only one organ system has such distinct layers.

The mucosa is unique.  Note that the mucosa is packed with glandular tissue, which extends from the surface all the way to the muscularis mucosae.  Also note that there is relatively little lamina propria, visible only as inconspicuous strands separating the glands.

Note that the mucosal glands contain more than one cell type, and that cells of the surface epithelial cells differ markedly from those of the glands.

Only one organ has features like this.

No more hints.


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