So the darkest part of the nucleus would be the nucleolus.

So that's not a particularly dark nucleus, that's a fairly pale nucleus.

The cytoplasm is relatively dark, and then
the cytoplasm of neuroglia and their nucleoli
can be seen around the neurons.

With their infinite and myriad variety, all tissues of the body
can still be classified functionally into four basic types,
and the four basic types are epithelium--
you saw an example of liver tissue, muscle--
you saw an example of skeletal muscle, nervous tissue-- we saw
both neurons and supporting neuroglia, and
the supporting or connective tissues-- commonly
called "the connective tissues," which are a vast range of different tissues
that support everything else in the body.
Epithelial tissue is everywhere, a selective barrier,
that covers the external surface of the body, internal body surfaces.
It's part of skin, it's the outer layer of the skin,
it's a lining of the airway of the respiratory system, lining of the G.I.
tract, lining the urogenital track.
It forms the glands associated with all the major organ systems of the body.
It forms slippery membranes, such as the pleura and the peritoneum that
ease mobile organs, organs that change size within the body cavities,
and it's completely vascular.
So epithelial cells forming this barrier must receive their oxygen and nutrients
from a layer of connective tissue underlying the epithelium-- so covering
of the body, internal covering of internal surfaces
of the body, slippery sacks, and major glands.
The supporting or connective tissues are about the most varied group
of the four basic tissue types.
Supportive connective tissues include fat-- which you're seeing,
dense connective tissue-- which forms ligaments and tendons,
and those would be quite important to us and so
we look at the basis for musculoskeletal injuries,
cartilage and bone-- in this case, decalcified bone
where the minerals have been to dissolved out of the bone,
and we're basically seeing the organic component.
In contrast, muscle and nerve are very active tissues.
The basic function of muscle tissue is motion.
We'll look at the individual tissues in more detail when
we get to the particular cases in which they
play an important role in understanding the case.
There are three types of muscle tissues, this is an example of skeletal muscle
that we just saw.
There will also be smooth muscle and cardiac muscle
that we won't look at in too much detail,
but what they all have common is their property of contraction,
so this is an excitable tissue, this is a tissue that contracts,
this is a tissue that when it contracts, produces motion
in various elements of the musculoskeletal system
and organs of the body.
Finally, this is an example of nervous tissue that you saw before.
So neurons communicating with each other, communicating with muscles,
communicating with other parts of the organ systems,
and so the function of the nervous tissue is communication.
This is another excitable tissue.
Quiz question-- so which of these is not a supporting or connective tissue?