Incredible Inner Space Exhbition by Microscopy Australia
Bad hair day? Grease factories are at work in your skin. Three sebaceous glands surround the hair follicle and will empty their greasy globules (white) onto the hair – the round pink thing in the centre of the follicle.
Visualised using light microscopy by A/Prof. Paul Rigby, University of Western Australia.
Size: the biggest sebaceous gland is 225 micrometres wide.
Looking at tissue stained like this is the basis of a lot of clinical histology, where diseases are diagnosed and students learn what the microscopic structures in tissues look like.
