Colon & Crypt : Microscopic Anatomy

Drawings from the book by: Radivoj V. Krstic, Human Microscopic Anatomy. An atlas for students of medicine and biology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991.

See below drawings of the normal human colon, the normal mucosa, and normal crypts
Some crypts can become aberrant, likely due to the mutation of a stem cell due to a carcinogen shot. Aberrant crypt can yield aberrant crypt focus (ACF) by crypt fission.

COLON (major part of large bowel or large intestine)
Crypt anatomy (low quality, 100 ko) Colonic Mucosa CL: crypts of Lieberkuhn E: epithelium GC: goblet cells Mu: mucus BL: basal lamina LP: lamina propria TM: tunica mucosa LMM: lamina muscularis- mucosae	Crypt anatomy (high definition, good quality, large size 999 ko)