Normal Tissue Gallery Elastin

Adrenal gland – Elastin fibres surround cell nests of the adrenal medulla.

Aorta, media – Elastin is most abundant in the media of the aorta

Appendix, mucosa

Appendix, muscular wall – Smooth muscle cells are surrounded of by elastin fibres.

Bone marrow

Breast

Bronchus, mucosa – High content of elastin fibres along the bronchus mucosa.

Cerebellum (molecular layer, Purkinje cell layer, granule cell layer, white matter)

Cerebellum (molecular, Purkinje cell, granule cell layers; white matter)

Cerebrum, grey matter

Cerebrum, white matter

Colon descendens, mucosa – Elastin fibres predominate in the lamina propria, around smooth muscle cells of the muscularis mucosae, and in blood vessels.

Colon descendens, muscular wall – Smooth muscle cells are surrounded of by elastin fibres.

Duodenum, Brunner gland

Duodenum, mucosa – Elastin fibres occur in the lamina propria of the gastrointestinal mucosa. They also surround smooth muscle cells of the muscularis mucosae.

Epididymis

Esophagus, squamous epithelium

Fallopian tube, mucosa

Fat

Gallbladder, epithelium – High elastin content in the lamina propria and around smooth muscle cells.

Heart – Heart muscle cells are surrounded of by elastin fibres.

Ileum, mucosa – A subendothelial elastin band is seen in muscular types arteries and in veins.

Kidney, cortex

Kidney, medulla

Liver – Elastin only occurs around central veins and in portal fields.

Lung – High content of elastin fibres in lung tissue.

Lymph node

Ovary, stroma – High content of elastin fibres.

Pancreas

Parathyroid

Parotid gland

Pituitary gland, anterior lobe

Pituitary gland, posterior lobe

Placenta (amnion and chorion)

Placenta, early

Placenta, mature

Prostate – Elastin fibres surround smooth muscle cells in the stroma.

Rectum, mucosa

Seminal vesicle

Sinus paranasales

Skeletal muscle – Skeletal muscle cells are surrounded of by elastin fibres.

Skin – Elastin fibres occur below the epidermis.

Spleen

Stomach, antrum – Elastin fibres occur in the lamina propria of the gastrointestinal mucosa.

Stomach, corpus – Elastin fibres occur in the lamina propria of the gastrointestinal mucosa.

Testis – High density of elastin fibres along smooth muscles surrounding tubuli of the testis.

Thymus

Thyroid gland

Tonsil, surface epithelium

Tonsil

Urinary bladder, muscular wall – Smooth muscle cells are surrounded of by elastin fibres.

Urinary bladder, urothelium – Elastin fibres occur below the urothelium.

Uterus, ectocervix: Elastin fibres abundantly occur below the squamous epithelium.

Uterus, endocervix

Uterus, endometrium (pregnancy)

Uterus, endometrium (proliferation)

Uterus, endometrium (secretion) – A high elastin content is seen in the stroma.

Uterus, myometrium – Muscle cells are surrounded of by elastin fibres.