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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Rheumatol. 2013 Apr;19(3):134–137. doi: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e318289c033

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The right panel shows increased size and numbers of mitochondria in T cells isolated from the patient with tuberous sclerosis overlapping with systemic lupus erythematosus (TSC/SLE). T cells were prepared by negative selection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a normal age-matched control are shown on the left; 5 × 106 T cells were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde and prepared for electron microscopy. Images shown represent 29,500× magnification of whole cells (top panels) and 108,000× magnification of mitochondria (bottom panels).