Esophagus Muscularis

Layered muscle tissue of the esophagus, from an H&E-stained histology slide in the GTEx tissue catalog.

Biology builds itself in layers. A single cell divides and specializes, joining others to form tissue with a shared role. In the esophageal muscularis, cells have organized into layered muscle that coordinates the contractions of swallowing.

Part of a three-piece series tracing the progression from cell to tissue to organ. Each layer originates from a single cell following its genetic instructions.

Provenance

GTEx — Genotype-Tissue Expression Project, specimen GTEX-117XS-1426
https://brd.nci.nih.gov/brd/specimen/GTEX-117XS-1426
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, supported by the NIH Common Fund and NCI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, and NINDS. Data available via the GTEx Portal and NCI Biospecimen Research Database.

Materials

Giclée fine art print on archival paper. Each print ships with a signed data-provenance insert card.

Included

• One giclée print (unframed, shipped in a protective tube)
• Signed data-provenance insert card
• Care instructions

Studio

Genetics of Design is a studio that translates scientific and geographic datasets into printed work. Each piece begins with a public record — road networks, genomes, star catalogs, species data — and is published alongside the provenance of the data it came from.