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Jamie Chapman 🔬🔬 Profile picture
Jamie Chapman 🔬🔬
@Chapman_Histo
UTAS Medicine Senior Lecturer in Human Anatomy; creator of 3 Min Histology YouTube vids; Human A&P & Histology Coordinator. #SciComm My posts are my own. He/him
Jul 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/5 HPotD: Histology of the Testis, resin section, H&E.

The Seminiferous tubules are surrounded by several layers of myoid (contractile) cells, outside of the basement membrane, forming its wall. Sitting on the basement membrane are the Nurse cells (N) and spermatogonia (Sp). 2/5 HPotD (cont.): The spermatogonia, the stem cells of spermatogenesis, divide, differentiate and push past the blood-testis barrier (tight junctions between Nurse cells) to move from the basal compartment to the adluminal compartment. They then enter into Meiosis I to become