Histology links
Websites related to histology
Introductory Histology
- Histology at SIU School of Medicine - part of Year 1.
- Blue Histology, by Lutz Slomianka, Anatomisches Institut der Universität Zürich-Irchel (hosted by the University of Western Australia).
- Ed's Basic Histology Gallery, a website "placed primarily for the medical students at The University of Health Sciences in Kansas City".
- Shotgun Histology (on YouTube, narrated surveys of virtual slides)
- The JayDoc HistoWeb, Univ. of Kansas.
- Internet Atlas of Histology, interactive images, plus quizzes.
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. - The Histology Zoomer ("histology images, tutorials and quizzes", from Yakima Valley Community College)
- Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy (from Anatomy Atlases, a digital library of anatomy information, curated by Ronald A. Bergman)
- Human Histology, by Allen L. Bell, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Virtual Slide Viewing
- Virtual Slidebox (University of Iowa Department of Pathology) offers interactive viewing of many specimens, both normal histology and histopathology.
- Virtual Slide Box for Teaching Histology and Pathology (The Cleveland Clinic, CWRU)
- Virtual Histology at Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN). Click on Zoomified Histology for virtual microscopic examination of many different specimens.
- BrainMaps.org (limited to nervous tissue; includes an interactive high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope. An NIH supported project from UC Davis.)
Pathology
- WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory, Mercer University.
- Virtual Slidebox (University of Iowa Department of Pathology)
- Ed "the Pathology Guy" (lots of information and links related to pathology, as well other good stuff, at The University of Health Sciences, Kansas City)
- WebPathology: Visual Survey of Surgical Pathology
- The JayDoc HistoWeb, Univ. of Kansas.
Histotechnology
- SIUC Histotechnology Certificate Program
- National Society for Histotechnology
- American Society for Clinical Pathology
- National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (at UC San Diego)
Additional Resources
- Electron Microscopic Atlas of Mammalian Tissues, extensive image collection from the Universität Mainz, some available only with German-language labels.
- The Inner Life of the Cell offers an elegant animated video of cell activity viewed from a molecular perspective, by Alain Viel and Robert A. Lue at Harvard University.
- Also from this source -- Powering the Cell: Mitochondria -- Inner Life of a Cell / Protein Packing
- MolecularMovies.org is a portal to many animations of cell / molecular processes.
- The Animated Cell, by artist/biologist John Kyrk, offers easy-to-interpret cartoons that review basic cell biology.
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th ed., textbook by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter, � 2002.
- Using the microscope [micrographia.com].
- Microscopy primer [fsu.edu].
- Molecular Expressions: Exploring the world of optics and microscopy [fsu.edu]
- Chronology of biology in general.
- Robert Hooke (17th century polymath, credited with discovering "cells", and applying the word to biology) The Hooke Folio
Lists of links
- List of Histology Websites (long list of links, from University of Iowa)
- www.microscopy.info
- Histology World, links, reviews, mneumonics, recommendations, and more.
- Martindale's Anatomy and Histology Center
Miscellaneous- Street Anatomy (anatomy-themed art products)