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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Auton Neurosci. 2013 Apr 11;177(2):129–142. doi: 10.1016/j.autneu.2013.03.008

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Representative intraganglionic laminar endings (IGLEs) that were observed in the myenteric plexus (not stained) between muscle sheets of both striated muscle (illustrated in the left column) and smooth muscle (illustrated in the right column) sheets in the LES area. Each of the two columns of micrographs show single-plane images taken from a z-stack of DIC images with the IGLE in-focus in the middle row of the stack (and designated as Z = 0 μm for the respective middle micrographs in each column). For the IGLE associated with striated muscle (left column), the DIC micrographs from below and above the focal plane of the IGLE illustrate the signature A and I bands of striated muscle. For the IGLE associated with smooth muscle (right column), the DIC images from below and above the focal plane of the IGLE illustrate the characteristic smooth muscle patterns. The scale bar in the lower right hand image = 20 μm for all micrographs.