Table 2.

Morphological studies on the microvasculature in various tissues and organs with three different methods

	TEM	SEM-vc	SEM-rem
Skin	Higgins and Eady [86]
Skeletal muscle	Stingl et al. [87]		Holley and Fahim [88]
Muscle fascia	Rhodin [60]
Brain		Nakai et al. [64] Castenholz [65]	Shiraishi et al. [69] Ushiwata and Ushiki [70]
Retina		Risco et al. [89] Morrison et al. [90] Yoneya et al. [91] Pannarale et al. [92, 93] Bhutto and Amemiya [94–96]	Murakami et al. [97]
Strial vessel/inner ear			Nagai et al. [98]
Dental pulp			Zhang et al. [99] Iijima and Zhang [100]
Heart	Sherf et al. [61] He et al. [66]	Anderson and Anderson [63] Tsunenari [67]	Higuchi et al. [68]
Lung	Lane et al. [101] Sasaki et al. [71]
Mammary gland			Fujiwara and Uehara [102]
Small intestine	Hosoyamada et al. [75, 76]	Anderson and Anderson [63]	Miller et al. [103]
Gallbladder		Ohtani et al. [104]	Ohtani et al. [104]
Kidney	Sakai and Kriz [72] Elger et al. [73] Hosoyamada and Sakai [74]
Epididymis		Pais and Esperança-Pina [105]
Seminal cord		Polguj et al. [106]
Retrolingual membrane/frog	Berman et al. [107]

TEM Transmission electron microscopy, SEM-vc scanning electron microscopy of vascular casts, SEM-rem scanning electron microscopy after removal of extracellular matrices