Since the days of hooke (1635-1703), Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) and Malpighi (1628-1694) through the era of Purkinje (1787-1869), Bichat (1771-1802) and up to the early and late 20th century  when the first histology book was written by Rudolph von Kölliker (1817-1905) histology was studied and researched by the use of a microscope paper and pencil. Research is still done by light, confocal or electronic microscope but the study of this discipline is following the new electronic era. The paper and pencil is replaced by the computer. There are a lot of arguments regarding the place of computer applications in teaching histology while Harris et al. (2001) argued that the Virtual Microscope Laboratory may eventually be regarded as a potential replacement to real microscope and glass slides Cotter JR (2001) recognizes the importance of the use of microscopes for the studying of histology.

The main reason for introducing computer assisted instruction of histology among other scientific discipline is the decrease it total amount of teaching hours and the cost of maintaining labs (replacing microscopes and broken specimen slides). But the main question is whether the finance situation of the teaching institute should effect the level of teaching or should the students get the best possible knowledge of  microscopic organisation of the tissue and the human body?

Tell me what do you all think about this?

 Guy

Here you can see a picture of a the Medulary canal of the Rat Humerus.

TiN indicates the place were I implanted a Titanium rod. The green indicates the bone.

One can see a colar of bone that is engulfing the empty space were the rod used to be.

This bone collar can not be found without the rod implantation. Usualy this area is filled with bone marrrow.

This is an Enzimatic staining for Osteoblasts which are the bone cell the are responsible for building the bone.

Osteoblasts are seen as the black stain. The staining is called Alkaline Phosphatase staining.

We can not see the cells in this pic as the image is in a very low magnification X4.