8-12 Muscle tissue

SMOOTH MUSCLE – 3
Thin bundles smooth muscle fibers are sometimes difficult to diagnose.
The image is of thin bundles of smooth muscle fibers inside the connective tissue that supports villi of the small intestine mucosa.
Their cytoplasm become highlighted in green and the nuclei in blue.

Small intestine. Staining: HE. Medium magnification.

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