Question

Attached to my question is a microscopic photo of simple squamous epithelium . I am having trouble with a few aspects and hoping somebody will be able to help
1. Why are the nuclei (dark dots) located in-between the cells and not within ?
2. My teacher claims that the pink area between the cells is "cytoplasm" but cytoplasm is supposed to exist within cells not outside . How is the pink area cytoplasm but not extra cellular fluid ?
3. From this picture , under normal conditions it seems that the nuclei have made there way out of the squamous cells and into the extracellular fluid ?

Answer 1

Can somebody please clarify this and help me to understand .. It will be greatly appreciated !

Answer 2

do u still need help

Answer 3

nvm i can't help u with this it looks hard lol

Answer 4

yes , i need help ! i dont understand why nuclei and cytoplasm are located where they are, or if theres another way to look at this that im not seeing

Answer 5

sorry but idk either i'll try to get somebody to hel you tho k

Answer 6

ok.. thank you

Answer 7

welcome

Answer 8

@inkyvoyd

Answer 9

@sidsiddhartha

Answer 10

I would help but I'm afraid I have the same questions as you...

Answer 11

aww man . well thanks anyways .

Answer 12

does anybody have a reasonable explanation ?

Answer 13

@aaronq

Answer 14

I looked for images online to compare them, look at the last 3 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anatomy/Histo/lab_4/respiratory/DMS169/popup.html

it looks like the objects you say are nuclei, are in fact cells and the larger spaces are "deflated" alveoli

Answer 15

knew it wasnt what i thought it was . made no sense . but it does now . just spent a whole day trying to figure out a picture . what a life . lol thanks man