VM 217 is an undergraduate course designed to provide a basic background in the normal histological structure of cells, tissues and organs of the animal body. Because there is an inseparable relationship between structure and function, emphasis is placed on structural-functional correlates at both the light and electron microscopic levels. This course is intended to give you enough experience with the material so that at the end of it students would be able to identify normal tissues and organs prepared by standard methods for light microscopy.
? The first part of the course deals with basic tissues (a collection of similar cells and the extracellular matrices surrounding them): epithelium; connective tissues, including blood, bone and cartilage; muscles; and nerves.
? The second part of the course deals with organs, systemic arrangement of tissues performing a specific function, as of respiration, digestion, etc