The human esophagus is a muscular tube that connects the throat with the stomach. At about eight inches in length, it is lined with a moist tissue called mucosa. The esophagus' primary purpose is to pass food from the mouth to the stomach.
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| Human esophagus at 100x magnification under the microscope. |
These first two images of the human esophagus were captured using the Richter Optica U2 biological microscope and a 5mp CMOS microscope camera. Both were captured using brightfield with magnification at 100x and 400x.
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| Human esophagus under brightfield microscope at 400x. |
Using an Epi-Fluorescence microscope, the following image was captured at 400x magnification. Notice that the human esophagus prepared slide is in the exact same position as the image captured above.
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| Human esophagus under an epi fluorescent microscope at 400x. |
The human esophagus prepared slide can be purchased in the Histology: Human Organ prepared slide kit from Microscope World.