Walker, Spike (2021). CIL:39062, Mus musculus, male germ cell, Sertoli cell. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J03R0RRX

This light micrograph shows the outside edge of two seminiferous tubules of a mouse testis. This section is a 1um thick transverse section, stained with toluidine blue to highlight the cells, with the nucleus staining a darker blue. The dark blue line separating the two seminiferous tubules consists mostly of myoid (muscle) tissue. The majority of cells seen in this image (arranged in layers) are germ cells, which, by repeated cell division, eventually produce spermatozoa. Chromosomes are visible in most of the nuclei of the cells. The cell with a deeply-stained nucleus and even darker nucleolus is a Sertoli cell ('nurse cell') that has fine cytoplasmic extensions branching between the other cells to nurture the developing germ cells.

• 2021

• Walker, Spike

B0007567 Male germ cells. Wellcome Images available under the following creative commons usage http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/

Preparation: chemically fixed tissue
Relation to intact cell: sectioned tissue
Item type: recorded image
Imaging mode: modes of light microscopy
Parameter imaged: absorption of illumination
Source of contrast: differences in adsorption or binding of stain
Visualization methods: toluidine blue
Processing history: unprocessed raw data

• Mus musculus

• Male germ cell
• Myoid tissue
• Nuclear chromosome
• Nucleolus
• Nucleus
• Seminiferous tubule
• Sertoli cell

• Seminiferous tubule development

• data
• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Samplenumber: 39062

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J03R0RRX

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL39062

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2022-08-12