Biology · Ch 10 — Animal Tissue
Cuboidal Epithelium
10.2.1.2
Cuboidal Epithelium
Cuboidal epithelium is built of cube-shaped cells, each with a single, roughly spherical nucleus placed at its centre.
Function: absorption and secretion.
Location: lining the pancreatic duct and the salivary duct, and forming the proximal and distal convoluted tubules of the kidney's nephron. …
Figure 10.2Cuboidal Epithelium
What this figure shows. A single row of roughly square (cuboidal) cells sitting on a basement membrane, each cell containing a rounded, centrally placed nucleus within granular cytopl …