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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chromosome Res. 2012 Dec;20(8):971–978. doi: 10.1007/s10577-012-9331-y

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Association of nuclear bodies with human LBCs. a–c At an early stage of expansion the human sperm heads are often associated with spherical nuclear bodies (a) whose periphery stains strongly with mAb Y12 against the “Sm” epitope (symmetric dimethylarginine) (c). d–g When the sperm head is more expanded and individual chromosomes are distinguishable, one can see that the nuclear bodies are attached to the DNA axis of the chromosomes (arrowheads in e and g). An antibody against the protein coilin preferentially stains the cortex of the bodies (g).