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This page contains Practical 3 links to online histology as background to the topic of gametogenesis and fertilization. This topic is covered in detail elsewhere in your course and is provided here as background to this current Practical. My special thanks to the constructers of the many excellent Histology sites linked below.
School of Anatomy and Human Biology - The University of Western Australia
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology - The University of KansasJayDoc
Loyola University Medical Education Network
Part 21: Female Reproductive Tract - Ovary, Oviduct, and Uterus
Part 22: Female Reproductive Tract - Cervix, Vagina, Umbilical Cord, Placenta, and Mammary Gland
Part 20: Male Reproductive Tract
Biology - NHC
A series of Histology Quiz questions.
This database is probably a bit advanced to use at this stage, but as your knowledge grows, should be an ongoing invaluable resource to give a medical "snapshot" of a genetic disorder or topic.
Try a search of the database with a keyword from this current practical or a specific genetic disease.
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Laboratory 4 Covers later stages of development in the fetus.
Advanced note - a few genes are also located in each cell outside the nucleus, in mitochondria (mitochondrial DNA) which are involved in cellular respiration. These mitochondrial genes are always inherited from your mother (the egg) not your father (sperm).
Movie of Human Embryo Growth (this shows a human embryo growing, all images are to scale)
Movie of Mouse Embryo Growth (this shows a mouse embryo growing)
Home Page
Embryo stages
Fetal Dev
Dev Notes 1
Dev Notes 2
System Notes
Acknowledgements
Practical 3
Introduction
Ovary
Gametes
Week 1 Overview
Fertilization
Early Division
Implantation
Day 8-9
Day 10-12
Day 13-14
Stage 6-7
Gastrulation
Week 3
Notochord
Background- Online Refs
Background- Histology
Practical 4
Practical 11
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Movies
Embryology News
Class Notes
NeuroClass
Serial Images
K12 Students
Abnormal Development
Histology
Contents by Page
School of Med Sci
UNSW Medicine
University of NSW
UNSW Cell Biology
NCBI Books
Dev Biol (Gilbert)
There are several excellent histology textbooks, many cover gonad histology, uterus histology, gametogenesis and fertilization.
Dont mistake histology for embryology which is about the dynamic processes which occur rather than just the morphological description of the biological structures.
I have very little histology in UNSW Embryology (for which I apologise). There are excellent online histology sites and in addition Department of Anatomy "Fabric of Life" which covers the subject well.
Please email Dr Mark Hill if you wish to make a comment about this current project.