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Microscopic Image of Skin Cells

Here the inside of the body is above, the outside world below. The cells just below the junction between pink and purple tissue in this image are the growing layer of the skin. The cells migrate downward over a period of days, become flatter, and slough off.

Figure 1

Model of Muscle Cells

Muscle cells are rod shaped. Below you see a short section of a much longer muscle cell, with the contractile structures within it. The three pronged blue fingered "hand" just left of center is the end of a very long nerve cell that operates the muscle.

Figure 2

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