Hypothalamus, Pineal & Pituitary Gland Lab Flashcards
What is this structure?
Pineal Gland
What structure is this?
What is on the left side of the structure and how does it accumulate?
Pineal Gland
Brain Sand; accumulates with age
Where is this structure found?
What are the stained particles?
Pineal Gland
Pinealocytes; Glial Cells-Phagocytic fx.
What is the name of this structure?
Where is the P.D., P.I., P.N., adenohyphoysis?
Pituitary Gland
What is this structure?
Label a-g
Developing Hypothalamus & Hypophysis
a. Hypothalamus
b. Median Eminence
c. Pars Nervosa
d. Residual Lumen
e. Adenohypophysis
f. Spenoid
g. Ossification
What it this structure?
Label the (3) structures.
Pituitary
P. Distalis
P. Intermedia
P. Tuberalis
What is this structure?
Neurohypophysis
What is this structure?
What are the stained cells?
What are the white holes/spaces?
Pituitary Gland
Nuclei of Pituicytes (supporting cells)
Fenestrated Capillaries
What is this structure?
What are the dark-stained pink circules and what do they collect?
What are the structures with nuclei inside?
Pituitary Gland; Pars Nervosa
Herring Bodies; oxytocin & ADH
Pituicyte (supporting cell)
What structure is this?
What are the dark-stained circles?
Pars Nervosa; Neurophypophysis
Nuclei of Pituocytes (glial/supporting cells)
What is this structure?
Discuss where its 4 parts are including which holds Cysts of Colloid?
Pituitary Gland; Adenohypophysis
P. Distalis
P. Intermedia (Cysts of Colloid)
P. Nervosa
P. Tuberalis (Forms a partial collar around the stalk of the infundibulum)
What is this structure?
Large Yellow Structure?
Darkly Stained?
Gray tube running through center?
Small Yellow Structure?
Adenohypophysis
Blood Vessels/Capillaries
Basophils
Connective Tissue
Acidophils
What is this structure?
Name 3 structures?
If a portion does not stain what is it?
Adenhypophysis/ P. Distalis
Capillaries
Acidophils
Basophils
Chromophobes
