understanding what the limiting plate is - axeon73

[ArchivalUser]

I'm trying to figure this out, is it just the hepatocytes that immediately surround the portal tract structures? So it's like you have a tube for the three vessels in the portal tract, then a single layer of cells encircles this tube, and this is the limiting plate? I guess in histology the vessels aren't going to be grouped together like this, so then the limiting plate would be a tight region around the portal tract?

[ArchivalUser]

Limiting plate: layer of hepatocytes surrounding each portal triad and separating it from the surrounding sheets of hepatocytes.

The following link is the image of Normal liver with limiting plate.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...0%26um%3D1

Please compare with this slide. (description below the images)

http://www.pathologyatlas.ro/viral-chron...atitis.php

Hope this will help you..

[ArchivalUser]

thanks for the definition, really helpful, especially the second link for the pathology atlas! wish my school would just use a book with pictures instead of these slides with no labels at all, because we're all blindly guessing what things are and don't learn a thing.

[ArchivalUser]

You're welcome..