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Small bile ducts of the human liver (400X)

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Smal bile ducts of the human liver. Image copyright: University of Oslo, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. (Tissue stain: H+E).

What are the two main histological features of small bile ducts?

  1. Small bile ducts in the portal triads are characterized by having a low cubic epithelium which is colored purple in a H+E section like this one.
  2. The surrounding connective tissue is virtually nonexistent.

In this section, try to identify:

  • bile ducts
  • artery (branch of the hepatoc artery)
  • vein (branch of the portal vein)
  • hepatocytes
  • nuclei of the hepatocytes
  • erythrocytes
Published October 21st 2021, updated December 9th 2021.