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A further type of simple cuboidal epithelium is the pigment epithelium of the retina. It can be easily lifted from the connective tissue membranes of the eyeball, mounted onto a microscope slide, and observed unstained from above (Fig. A). In this way, the polygonal forms of the cells (Fig.Al) and the large numbers of spindle-shaped melanin granules can be seen.
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Krstić, R.V. (1985). Surface Epithelia. Simple Cuboidal Epithelium. Example: Pigment Epithelium of Human and Mouse Retina. In: General Histology of the Mammal. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70420-8_13
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