Epithelio
Epithelio (o in latin epithelium) es texito membranar componite de cellulas que coperi e protege le exterior e interior superficies de corpore. Le epithelio fodera le vaso sanguinee e organos cave, como stomacho e renes. Le epiderme, le exterior parte de pelle, es le epithelio que coperi de corpore. Omne glandulas consiste de cellulas epithelial. In altere regiones, le epithelio excreta sudor, oleo, cera o muco.  

Functiones de cellulas epithelial es: secretion, absorption selective, protection, transportation transcellular, sensante. Le membranas epithelial non ha vaso sanguinee, ergo illos debe reciper nutrimento via diffusion de substantias ab texito connective per basamento membranal.

Partitio 
 Epithelium superficiale
 Epithelium simplex
 epithelium simplex squamosum 
 epithelium simplex cuboideum 
 epithelium simplex columnare
 Epithelium pseudostratificatum
 Epithelium stratificatum
 epithelium stratificatum simplex
 epithelium stratificatum cuboideum
 epithelium stratificatum squamosum
 cornuatum
 non cornuatum 
 Epithelium transitionale (o urothelium)
 Epithelium glandulare
 glandulae exocrinae
 glandulae endocrinae

Notae

Bibliographia 
 Eurell, Jo Ann C., ed. 2006. Dellmann's textbook of veterinary histology. Wiley-Blackwell.
 Freshney, R. Ian, 2004. Culture of Epithelial Cells. Wiley.

Ligamine external 
Articulo ex Encyclopedia Britannica de Epithelio