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Sample from thoat mucus.

December 7, 2013
23:48

AlpSoandso

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I would like to ID what type of cell I have pictured here.

A sample of throat mucus was treated with Tryptan blue and a slide cover was squished down on it.

(I really am new at this and have absolutely no training).

I put it under an eyepiece that is marked 40/0,65 and a 10x eyepiece.

I assume that's 400x. The camera/photograph probably magnifies it a bit more when viewed on the computer screen.

I THINK the images are of Macrophage. But that is my guess.

Anybody know for certain?

Here is a link to images on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8…..450860223/

Thanks

December 8, 2013
00:06

Oliver

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Hello and welcome to the forum. You have taken pictures of epithelial cells of the mouth and throat. These come off easily. You might want to read the article in the November 2011 issue of the magazine, where I also talk about them:

http://www.microbehunter.com/2…..mber-2011/

and

http://www.microbehunter.com/2…..uary-2013/

Greetings, Oliver

http://www.microbehunter.com – Oliver Kim Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. (Bertrand Russell)

December 8, 2013
04:44

AlpSoandso

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Epithelial cells they are!