Tunica media of elastic arterya , light micrograph

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Light micrograph of the tunica media of an aorta stained with haematoxylin and eosin. The elastic laminae appear as wavy lines stained in pink by eosin. The tunica intima is on the right border. Among them there are elongated nuclei of smooth muscle fibres

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Keywords: -, aorta, artery, biological, biology, blood, cell, circulatory, collagen, elastic, fibre, healthy, histological, histology, lamina, laminae, light, lm, micrograph, microscopical, microscopy, mitosis, normal, system, vascular, vessel