Stratified Epithelial Forms

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Stratified Epithelium: Defined as surface barrier tissue with multiple layers. This tissue does NOT have blood vessels and depends on diffusion for nutrition. Multiple layers result in greater complexity and diversity of shape. The most complex of these is the skin's Epidermis with four or five layers ranging from a replentishment layer (basal layer or germinal layer ... stratum) through keratin producing cells and pigment distribution cells, to the final, outer, layer of dead husks intertwined with protein cables, even in death.

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Stratified Squamous (Cornea) 33.47 Kb	Stratified Squamous (Esophagus - 400 X) 51.07 Kb	Stratified Squamous (Esophagus - 1000 X) 54.40 Kb	Cornified Stratified Squamous (Thin Skin) 59.77 Kb	Cornified Stratified Squamous (Thick Skin - 100 X) 59.57 Kb
Thin Skin (400 X) 215.51 Kb	Thick Skin (400 X) 62.72 Kb	Thick Skin (1000 X) 52.91 Kb	Transitional (Urinary Bladder) 160.93 Kb