This page has endocrine histology of the anterior pituitary gland under high power. The anterior pituitary mostly resembles normal glandular tissue and is this region is called the pars distalis because it is further from the brain (point of attachment). The anterior pituitary has 3 types of cells; red acidophils which make growth hormone and prolactin, blue basophils that make 4 different tropic hormones and clear chromophobe.
Slides which were taken by bio 139 students from spring of 2018 to fall of 2019 are in the right hand side and your lab book's picture is on the left hand side. Compare those pictures to the lab book pictures by scrolling trough the tstudent pictures using the black arrows. Then draw the histology as instructed by your teacher.
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Anterior Pituitary High Power |
