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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Mar 16;1833(1):233–241. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.03.008

Figure 1. Subcellular arrangement of mitochondria in normal adult cardiomyocytes.

Figure 1

Transmission electron micrograph of normal 8 week old mouse myocardium. Note lanes of interfibrillar mitochondria running between individual myofibrils and cluster of mitochondria surrounding nucleus (bisected on right margin). The “sardines in a can” arrangement appears to enforce inter-organelle contact and does not permit meaningful intra-cellular mitochondrial transport.