Mammary Cubes

For another pathology assignment, we had to dice up a piece of tissue, and show it change over time. So I decided to look at breast tissue (cuz my pathology piece is going to be about breast cancer). I did quite enjoy playing around with the layout!

In Figure 1, we see from left to right, breast tissue at rest, breast tissue during pregnancy, and breast tissue post partum. I think one of the problems here is that the cubes don't really... appear to be of the same cut... particularly the second and last ones since there is such a drastic change in the histology.

Figure 1.

Figure 2 is just a close up of the first and second cubes. In the first one, I'm trying to show that the glands are inactive or empty, thus they have dark shadows. There's also plenty of connective tissue. During pregnancy though, a serous secretion is produced by the glands... I sorta attempted to show that the acini are full of transparent liquid... As for the third cube (Figure 1), the secretion is full of lipids and causes the lumen of the glands to expand. There's not much connective tissue...

Figure 2.