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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Parasitol. 2007 May 10;118(1):17–24. doi: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.04.013

Figure 1. The contractile vacuole of Trypanosoma cruzi.

Figure 1

An epimastigote observed by transmission electron microscopy. Notations are flagellar pocket (FP), acidocalcisomes (Ac), kinetoplast (K), contractile vacuole bladder (CV), tubules forming the spongiome (S). Note that similar electron dense material (closed arrowheads) is observed in both the CV and the acidocalcisomes. Scale bar = 0.25 μm. Similar features were also observed in amastigote and trypomastigote forms. Reprinted with permission from Montalvetti et al., 2004.