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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2015 Jun 20;303:1–15. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.05.081

Figure 6. Transformation of monocytes to macrophages after acoustic injury.

Figure 6

The images show the tissues that were collected from the basal half of the cochleae and were stained with CD45. A: The typical morphology of the CD45 positive cells at 1 day post-noise exposure. Notice that a large number of the cells display the monocyte morphology (arrows). The cells with irregular shapes are barely seen. B: The typical morphology of the CD45 positive cells at 4 days post-noise exposure. The cells display diverse morphologies, suggesting the active transformation from monocytes into macrophages. C to G: Transforming continuum between monocytes and macrophages. Bar in B = 50 μm. The images of A and B are oriented with the top being the osseous spiral lamina and the bottom being the lateral wall.