Mescher Antony L. Junqueira's Basic Histology. Text and Atlas

13th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2013. — 1251 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-180720-3 (e-book).Now in its 13th edition, Junqueira’s Basic Histology continues as the preeminent source of concise yet thorough information on human tissue structure and function. For over 40 years this educational resource has met the needs of learners for a well-organized and concise presentation of cell biology and histology that integrates the material with that of biochemistry and physiology and provides an excellent foundation for subsequent studies in pathology. The text is prepared specifically for students of medicine and other health-related professions, as well as for advanced undergraduate courses in tissue biology. As a result of its value and appeal to students and instructors alike, Junqueira’s Basic Histology is used worldwide in nearly a dozen different languages.
Additional new art and other figures are present in each chapter, with the goal to simplify learning and integration with related material. The McGraw-Hill medical illustrations now used throughout the text, supplemented by numerous animations in the electronic version of the text, are the most useful, thorough, and attractive of any similar medical textbook. Electron and light micrographs have been replaced throughout the book as needed, and again they make up a complete atlas of cell, tissue, and organ structures fully compatible with the students’ own collection of glass or digital slides.
As with the previous edition, the book facilitates learning by its organization:
* An opening chapter reviews how the structures of cells and tissues are studied.
* Two chapters then summarize the structural and functional organization of the human cell
cytoplasm and nucleus.
* The next seven chapters cover the four basic tissues that make up our organs: epithelia, connective tissue (and its major subtypes), nervous tissue, and muscle.
* Remaining chapters explain the organization and functional significance of these tissues in each of
the body’s organ system, closing with up-to-date consideration of cells in the eye and ear.