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. 2005 Mar;166(3):913–921. doi: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)62311-5

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Podoplanin expression in normal human tissues. In the skin (A), cervix (B), and esophagus (C), basal keratinocytes and LECs express podoplanin, whereas blood vascular endothelial cells are not labeled. Podoplanin is also expressed by fibromyocytes in the prostate (D) and by myoepithelial cells of breast glands (E) and salivary glands (F). G: Podoplanin expression by stromal cells in the medulla of the thymus near invaginations of the capsule that penetrates through the thymic cortex (arrows). H and I: Expression of podoplanin by follicular dendritic cells of germinal centers of the tonsils (H) and of lymph nodes (I). J: In the lung, alveolar type I cells and LECs (L, lymphatic vessel; B, blood vessel) express podoplanin. Lymphatic endothelial expression in the colon (K) and the ovary (L); a corpus albicans (CL) is unlabeled. M: Follicular dendritic cells express CD21 and also express podoplanin (N). Scale bars, 100 μm.