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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Struct Biol. 2016 Jan 13;194(2):139–146. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2016.01.006

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Fine structure of the TM striated sheet: Fig. 2a: TEM of a rat TM showing the parallel-arranged type II collagen fibrils interwoven by thin filaments (arrowheads). Inset: TEM of an individual collagen fibril with its typical banding pattern. Fig. 2b: High-resolution freeze-etching image of a guinea pig TM formed by collagen fibrils crosslinked by numerous filamentous materials. Fig. 2c: Detail image of collagen fibrils crosslinked by thin filaments (arrowheads). Fig. 2d: High magnification showing collagen fibrils connected by globular-arranged filaments. Scale bars: a = 100 nm; Inset, b, c and d = 50 nm