Have these nuclei escaped the squamous cells ?

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Jennings

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Attached is a microscopic photo of simple squamous epithelium . I am having trouble with a few aspects of this photograph and hope somebody will be able to help clarify
1. Why are the nuclei (dark dots) located in-between the cells and not within ?
2. It was said that the pink area between the cells is "cytoplasm" but cytoplasm is supposed to exist within cells not outside . How is the pink area cytoplasm and not extra cellular fluid ?
3. From this picture , under normal conditions it seems that the nuclei have made there way out of the squamous cells and into the extracellular fluid ?

What is going on here ? Is there something im not seeing ? Or is it the context of what is happening that is throwing me off here . What are some of your opinions about this ?
 
Jennings said:
Attached is a microscopic photo of simple squamous epithelium . I am having trouble with a few aspects of this photograph and hope somebody will be able to help clarify
1. Why are the nuclei (dark dots) located in-between the cells and not within ?
2. It was said that the pink area between the cells is "cytoplasm" but cytoplasm is supposed to exist within cells not outside . How is the pink area cytoplasm and not extra cellular fluid ?
3. From this picture , under normal conditions it seems that the nuclei have made there way out of the squamous cells and into the extracellular fluid ?

What is going on here ? Is there something im not seeing ? Or is it the context of what is happening that is throwing me off here . What are some of your opinions about this ?
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Interesting. I'm not certain either, but I'll hazard some questions.

First, here's a link: http://std.about.com/od/glossary/g/squamousgloss.htm


How is it you were informed the dark-stained material are the nuclei? How were you informed the pink colored is "cytoplasm". What type of tissue/organism is the picture from?
 
Jennings said:
Attached is a microscopic photo of simple squamous epithelium . I am having trouble with a few aspects of this photograph and hope somebody will be able to help clarify
1. Why are the nuclei (dark dots) located in-between the cells and not within ?
2. It was said that the pink area between the cells is "cytoplasm" but cytoplasm is supposed to exist within cells not outside . How is the pink area cytoplasm and not extra cellular fluid ?
3. From this picture , under normal conditions it seems that the nuclei have made there way out of the squamous cells and into the extracellular fluid ?

What is going on here ? Is there something im not seeing ? Or is it the context of what is happening that is throwing me off here . What are some of your opinions about this ?
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What you think is extracellular is actually the cells...
The white parts are cavities, not the cells.
 
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