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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Death Differ. 2009 Oct 9;16(12):1590–1598. doi: 10.1038/cdd.2009.153

Figure 5. Electron microscopy on mouse aorta.

Figure 5

(a) Electron microscopy micrographs of miR-143(145) KO (KO) and wild-type (WT) aorta. M, mitochondria; RER, rough endoplasmic reticulum; SER, smooth endoplasmic reticulum; N, nuclei. Arrows indicate aligned ribosomes present on active RER, whereas they are organized in clusters all around the SER in WT aorta. Scale Bar = 1000nm.

(b) Micrograph of WT and miR-143/145 KO aorta (top panel), higher magnification image of the KO aorta on the bottom panel. N, nucleus; BL, basal lamina; IL, intima layer. Arrows indicate areas of ECM around a KO cell which shows cell protrusions. Scale Bar = 5μm.