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[Principles of organization of tissue mosaics of simple squamous epithelia]
Abstract:
With the aim to study general principles on organization of tissue mosaics of various types of simple squamous epithelii, a quantitative topological analysis has been performed in the frog mesothelial mosaics, in the posterior epithelium of the rabbit cornea and in the rat aortal endothelium after Lewis method. To all the types of simple squamous epithelii studied the histological law of Lewis can be applied. As demonstrates the qualitative analysis of the mosaics, the mesothelium and the posterior epithelium of the cornea are typical isotropic mosaics, while the mosaic of the aortal endothelium is nearer to the polystichous one. The possibilities of qualitative and quantitative topological analysis of the biological mosaics after Lewis method for studying their organization, degree of regularity, histogenesis and proliferative properties are discussed.
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