Liver tissue. False-colour scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of blood vessels around a lobule,the functional unit of the liver. A typical lobule is bound on its periphery by groups of ducts & vessels,most prominently the conducting portal vein (large blue sectioned vessel) & branches called distributing portal veins (smaller blue vessel). Plates of hepatocytes or liver cells (coloured gold) radiate towards a central vein (top right). The dark spaces surrounding them are capillaries (sinusoids). Arterial vessels also bind each lobule,but are less visible here. Magnification: x125 at 6x7cm size | |
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