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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Differentiation. 2008 Oct 31;77(1):70–83. doi: 10.1016/j.diff.2008.09.003

Figure 7. AQP0 plaque morphologies in isolated lens fiber cells.

Figure 7

Labelling for AQP0 in two adjacent lens fiber cells isolated from the lens cortex region where AQP0 aggregates into plaque-like structures. (A) Broad side view of a three-dimensional volume rendering of two lens fiber cells. (B–F) A series of single cross-sections extracted from the volume rendered image obtained from the regions indicated by the dashed lines in (A). The cross-sections feature discontinuous AQP0 plaque labelling (asterisk), inward- and outward-folding AQP0 plaques in adjacent fiber cells (arrows), and transitions from inward- to outward-folding plaques in short distances in the same fiber cell (dagger). Scale bar A, B–F = 5 μm, 2.5 μm.