Histology 

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Excellent.

  Virtual Hospital, Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy: A Functional Approach: Companion to Histology and Neuroanatomy: Second Edition

  The University of Western Australia.  Excellent.

  University of Delaware, unlabelled LM images

  Primarily a German-language site.  EMs of several intracellular organelles available in English. 

  Photomicrographs of a limited number of mamalian organs & tissues.

  Boston University School of Medicine site.  Excellent.

  University of Prince Edward Island.  Annotated images with associated clinical correlations.  Excellent.

  Another set of links to still more histo sites.

  University of New South Wales.  PDF files that may be useful for cursory review of major tissue types. 

  University of Houston.  Light micrographs.  Excellent.

  Student's condensed histo. notes from TTUHSC.

  "Histo Quizzes" on TTUHSC student website.

  Annotated images from University of Kansas Medical Center.  Excellent.

  Temple University.  Tutorials, included annotated images.  Excellent.

  Histology crossword puzzles, quiz games, and test questions. 

  University of California, Davis School of Medicine.  Excellent. 

  Short answer identification quizzes using LMs from a zoology course.

  Texas A&M University.  MCQs covering all of the major areas of cell histology.

  Texas A&M University.  Labelled EMs.

  Loyola University.  Annotated images & Practice Practicals.  Excellent.

  University of Iowa.  Test your knowledge of histology using these MCQs.  Excellent.

  UTMB.  Haven't really looked around, but could be helpful :)

  University of Louisville.  Annotate slide set.  Excellent.

  Washington University School of Medicine.  Most useful for block two at TTUHSC.  Excellent.

  Online text. 

  Duke University.

  University of Delaware.  Particularly useful for those who have difficulty conceptualizing structures in three dimensions.

  The University of Oklahoma.  Annotated slide set.  Excellent.

  University of Texas Medical Branch.  Tutorials and self-assessment tools.  Excellent.

  Slide show and self-assessment tool using light micrograph images.

Block One

Lecture Two:  Membranes

  Medically-related link explaining endocytosis.

  Animations of passive transport, active transport, and receptor-mediated endocytosis.  (Ch. 5)

  Animation illustrating gated and non-gated channels.

  Animation demonstrating uniport of a single molecule.

  Animation demonstrating symport of two molecules.

  Animation of ATPase and Na+, Glucose symport.

  Cotransport

  Countertransport

  Animation showing antiport of two molecules.

Lecture Three:  Cytoskeleton

  Animation demonstrating the mechanism underlying movement of cilia & flagella.

  the Biology Project.

  W.H. Freeman animation demonstrating the minus to plus movement of kinesin along a microtubule.

  More detailed animation demonstrating the movement of the kinesin motor protein.

Lecture Four:  Organelles

  Basic information about cell structure.  Good animations.

  Film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research.

Lecture Five:  Nucleus

  Slides illustrating stages in mitosis.

  Animations illustrating stages in mitosis & meiosis.  (Ch.9)

  Brief annotated tutorial & quiz.

Lecture Eight:  Muscle

  Animation demonstrates the effect of ATP and Mg++ on the contraction of actomyosin.

  Molecular mechanism of muscle contraction & smooth muscle action animations.  (Ch. 47)

Block Two

Lecture Two:  Peripheral Blood Cells

 The first installment of a fully searchable directory featuring more than 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders & malignancies.  Also includes normal images.

  With hyperlinked histology.  Davidson College.

  Learn about blood cells.

  Learn to distinguish between the various types of blood cells.

  Overview of the various types of blood cells.

  The basics about blood, blood types, & transfusions.

  Learn more about harvesting stem cells.

Lectures Five & Six:  Eye & Ear

  Sound transduction in the ear & information processing in the retina (Ch. 45)

  Self-guided interactive tour will show, and explain, the various parts and functions of the human ear.
 

Block Three

Lecture One:  Interdisciplinary Session on Immune System

  Kimball's Biology Pages.

  With hyperlinked histology.  Davidson College.

  With hyperlinked histology.  Davidson College.

  With hyperlinked histology.  Davidson College.

  With hyperlinked histology.  Davidson College.

  University of Leicester.

  Todar's Online Textbook.

  Nova Online.

  Animations depicting basics of cell-mediated and humeral immunity, as well as B-cell production of antibody.  (Ch. 18)

  Michigan State University.  Neutralization.  Opsonization.  Classical complement pathway.  Alternate complement pathway, etc.

  University of Alberta.  Lymph node.  MHC I.  Naive T cell extravasation.  Signal transduction (Class I and Class II cytokine receptors).  Type I hypersensitivity.

 

  National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases.

Lecture Two:  Pituitary & Hypothalamus

  Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Endocrine Axis & Hormonal Regulation of Ca++ (Ch. 42)

Lectures Four & Five:  Female Reproduction

  the Biology Project.

  Study aide depicting the menstrual cycle.

  Animations of the major events during the cycles & the hormones controlling the cycles.  (Ch. 43, Animation 2)

  Animated tutorial illustrating the production of HCl in the stomach cells.

  Animated tutorial illustrating the effects on the pancreas when secretin, CCK, or the vagus nerve is stimulated.