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• Hair shafts.
• Nucleated squamous epithelial cells (keratinocytes): from the epidermis and follicle.
VetBooks.ir • Cuboidal epithelial cells (basaloid epithelial cells): from the epidermis, follicles, apocrine
glands and reserve epithelial cells of the sebaceous and perianal glands.
• Columnar epithelial cells: from the sweat glands.
• Sebocytes: from the sebaceous glands.
Mesenchymal elements
• Fibroblasts: from the stromal tissue of dermis and subcutis.
• Melanocytes.
• Fragments of skeletal muscle.
• Capillaries.
• Adipocytes: from the subcutaneous tissue.

(A) (B) (C)

(D)
(E)

Fig. 5.4. Mesenchymal elements observed in skin cytology. (A) Fibroblasts. (B) Melanocytes. (C) Fragments of
skeletal muscle. (D) Capillaries. (E) Adipocytes.