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Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Nephrol. 2010 Nov 2;7(1):36–44. doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2010.152

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Development of acellular capillaries in the retina of diabetic eNOS-knockout mice. a | Representative images of retinal vessels from nondiabetic wild-type (WT nondiabetic) and diabetic wild-type (WT diabetic) mice 6 months after onset of diabetes treatment, and nondiabetic eNOS-knockout (eNOS−/− nondiabetic) and diabetic eNOS-knockout (eNOS−/− diabetic) mice 4 months after onset of diabetes. The arrows indicate the presence of acellular capillaries in diabetic eNOS-knockout mice. b | Quantitative measurements of acellular capillaries in the various mice. Abbreviations: eNOS, endothelial nitric oxide synthase; W T, wild-type C57BL/6 mice. Permission obtained from Investigative Ophthalmology & visual Science © Li, Q. et al. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 51, 5240–5246 (2010).