Programmed by : Dr. Oliver A.Downing
The package is designed to introduce the histology of the four main tissue types: connective; nervous; muscle and epithelium, using text, line drawings (30+) and full screen histology slides (40+). The slides may be viewed with or without labels. The structure of Blood and the make up of individual organs (microanantomy) have not been covered.
A screen from one of the modules
Contents
Introduction:
This covers the essential information required to interpret conventional light transmission histology slides - includes a brief outline of slide preparation and how magnification is calculated.
Connective tissue:
Briefly covers the main components of connective tissue: fibres; cells and intercellular matrix, their function and appearance in various named classes of connective tissue: loose connective; tendons; hyaline, elastic and fibro-cartilage and bone.
Epithelium:
Covers the essential classification and terminology of surface and non-surface epithelium and briefly relates structure to function. Includes examples of exocrine and endocrine glands.
Muscle tissue:
Covers the structure and appearance of skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle.
Nervous tissue:
Covers the main structural features of neurones and includes various examples of cell bodies, nerve fibres and nerve terminals (or accessory cells).
Review of Slides:
Provides the user with the opportunity to review all the images contained in the package
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Hardware and Software Requirements
windows Version
The package is supplied on a CD-ROM Installation Disc and can be installed to a local hard disc or network drive.
The minimum requirement is a PC with 100MHz Pentium processor , 8Mb of RAM and a VGA monitor capable
of displaying 16-bit color (65, 536 colors) at 640 x 480 resolution. The program is 32-bit and is compatible with Windows 95, 98 and NT.
Web Vesion
The package is supplied on a CD-ROM Installation Disc for installation to a web server. The software runs on PC clients only. The minimum requirement is a 200MHz Pentium processor with 32Mb of RAM and a Super VGA monitor capable of displaying 16-bit color (65,536 colors) at 800 x 600 resolution. The program is compatible with both Netscape Navigator 4.x and Internet Explorer 4 or better and requires Java and Javascript to be enabled on browsers.
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