stupid question about pancreas..

[dinesh]

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Are islets of langerhans considdered a tissue?
I had an exam today, the microscope pointer was on the islet, and said identify this tissue..so I put islets of langerhans 😕

Or would it be pancreas?...but that's an organ?:

 

[fun8stuff]

Are islets of langerhans considdered a tissue?
I had an exam today, the microscope pointer was on the islet, and said identify this tissue..so I put islets of langerhans 😕

Or would it be pancreas?...but that's an organ?:

it sounds like you put the right answer. as you said, the pancreas would be considered an organ. islets are a specialized tissue of the pancreas.

 

[dinesh]

I should probably just go ask the prof next week , because it was one of those 'stupid' questions.

Tissue to me , meant islet(which is where the pointer was)...pancreas never entered my mind.

 

[Krazykritter]

I think you are probably reading way too much into the question. Did you want them to put "What are the thingies that the arrow is on?" or better yet, "Identify the islets at the tip of the pointer."

Just kidding though. Histo sucks and Micro blows.

 

[blue_feiyan]

i'd say probably islets

 

[liverotcod]

I would have said "endocrine epithelium." In order to show that I knew it wasn't exocrine epithelium.

The way we learned it, there are really only a few tissues: epithelial, nervous, muscle, connective. Then of course many many subtypes. Secretory tissues are mostly epithelial and nervous.