You're so welcome! I'm happy to do what I can to help the next generation of healthcare professionals!

@@AnatomyHero Hello, I just got a perfect grade from my exam, thank you once again.

@@oykuunal Awesome!

Look in the lower left quadrant near where there is empty space, the striations are pretty visible there. If you scan back and forth across the fibers you will notice other ones but they're not as distinct.

In my experience, people mix up smooth with dense regular... so I made a video just about that! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9GdjZWK1JPLdZs.html If you go to my playlists you'll see I have one for basic histology. I have a video for every family (the ones that start with identifying have questions at the end) and then a video that has questions for all the tissue types as a wrap up!

Here is my full histology playlist! kzfaq.info/sun/PLBM7jL93Kc2RFon6AxyVIeoAMtp0Ci13u On there I have 1) a video about all the connective tissue (including cartilage) 2) a review and practice specifically for cartilage and 3) a video about bone histology! I also have a video with practice questions for ALL the tissue types, but I haven't put it on the playlist yet. I will do that later Best of luck in your studies!

That's such a common issue I've made a video about it! Let me know if you still have questions after you've watched this... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9GdjZWK1JPLdZs.html

The best thing to do is to learn all the families individually first, and then you'll be able to visually recognize what family it's in just through experience (meaning...once you've seen enough epithelium, you'll know it's epithelium and not muscle) You can also try the process of elimination...tell yourself all the things you know it's not and usually you'll only be left with one good answer. On my basic histology playlist (linked below) I have a video called identifying tissues that you can practice this with. If you aren't fully familiar with the other family types yet, you can also check out the following videos: 1) identifying epithelium 2) identifying connective tissue proper 3) identifying cartilage 4) practice identifying connective tissue (goes through ALL ct) There's also videos for things people commonly mix up (simple squamous vs adipose, smooth muscle vs dense regular). Hope that helps, good luck in your studies! Basic Histology (AP I): kzfaq.info/sun/PLBM7jL93Kc2RFon6AxyVIeoAMtp0Ci13u

@@AnatomyHero I found your video on identifying tissues earlier and watched it , it taught me how to immediately know which family it is , I still hesitate between smooth muscle and dense regular and don't often see striation in cardiac muscle but since you expected that saying in your response that you had videos for things people mix up gonna watch them ASAP inshallah Thanks again your videos help a lot.

They aren't always clearly visible on every part of the slide...carefully scan the whole slide looking for striations. Sometimes in cardiac they are not visible but the intercalated discs will be...if you give a timestamp and a slide that you can't see striations on I will tell you where to look

@@AnatomyHero thank you ma, the only slide where I see striations is in the skeletal muscle slide that was shown from the beginning till 1:16, I didn't notice any striations in any of the cardiac muscle slide or any other skeletal muscle slide that was projected. Ps: I do not know if what I'm referring to as striations is what it actually is. I think it's those tiny faint lines (pink and white) across the skeletal muscle.

photos.app.goo.gl/epabow2dBG6Yyvrb8 I circled the most visible striations (light and dark stripes) but if you zoom in and pan around you can see them everywhere. In the cardiac examples the striations are not visible, So in that case you would just look for the intercalated discs

@@AnatomyHero thank you, I think I can point out striations now when I see, thank you this was really helpful ☺️

@@amakaosita1982 happy to help! Good luck in your studies!

On the skeletal muscle, it looks like there are lines going top to bottom. Those are the striations.

Glad you're finding my videos helpful! Good luck on your exam! (And if you didn't know already...I have a histology playlist!)

@@AnatomyHero just took my lab exam. I aced it

@@BPrincess awesome!!

Good luck! Hope you get the grade you want 🙂