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Blue Histology - Histology on the Internet

This is not a comprehensive list of histology sites on the internet. It is just a small selection of sites that I for some reason or another find worthwhile visiting. If you know of something nice, let me know, and I'll have a look.

UIUC-COM Histology
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Internet Atlas of Histology is technically one of the more advanced histology sites on the www. Image quality is generally excellent - although, and this is the only caveat, most of the images are based on plastic embedded, non-human material which rarely will resemble the images that you see in most histology or pathology textbooks.
The part of the site which is accessible to the public contains a wealth of sections. Sections can be found by looking up under "Slides" or by "Object". "Labs" provide access to slides with accompanying short texts and guides.You also have access to quizzes if you follow the link "UIUC-COM Histology Home Page".
It may take a few minutes to get used to the user interface of the site and, needless to say, large images may mean long download times. But it's worthwhile. The site requires the installation of a jre plugin.
University of Iowas Virtual Slidebox Histology
This is about as close as you can get to useful virtual microscopy. A comprehensive set of slides is available. The entire slide, or at least most of it, can be looked at online at all magnifications, and it is not that slow ... well, at least not via a LAN connection. There are no labels, but this is the place to go if you need to brush up on "real" microscopy, i.e. go through slides and see if you can find / identify all the bits you have learned.
In addition, you will also find a histopathology slidebox and a slide search tool on the page.
JayDoc HistoWeb
The histology site of the University of Kansas Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, USA - A comprehensive set of labelled slides with brief explanations. Images are available in two sizes - the smaller ones are OK and load reasonably fast, the bigger ones look better and, of course, load a little slower. Part of the contents of this site were produced by medical students for medical students. A short list of links useful for medical students is included. There have not been substantial changes to the site for a few years now.
LUMEN
The histology site of Loyola University Strich School of Medicine, Chicago, USA - Another comprehensive set of labelled slides with brief explanatory notes. It is one of the most widely referred-to histology sites on the www, and it has been around for a long time by www standards - apparently since 1995. The site is very straightforward to use but the images begin to show their age. Recently a 'zoomified' version of the images hve been added to the site - the mode of presentation corresponds to that of the Iowa Virtual Slidebox. Pages labelled "Practical" are slide shows with questions and answers.
University of Virginia Health System - Cell and Tissue Structure / Physiology
You will find concise lecture handouts - both as webpages and PDF files, an exhaustive set of images with brief descriptions, an introduction to microscopy (partly based on external pages), self-study pages and practice questions, and, finally, general resources and clinical correlations (good selections of material available on the web). Everything is bundled into "subject area" pages, which makes it easy to find your way around without drowning in unsorted information. A few pages and functions are not publicly accessible.

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