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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Control Release. 2016 Feb 6;240:394–413. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2016.02.014

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Peyer’s patches (PPs). (A) A PP consisting of 12 lymphoid follicles (f) as seen in a gerbil intestine. (B) Lymphoid follicles in a gerbil intestine lined by intestinal villi. The large arrow points to the lymphoid follicle dome. (C) Schematic of a PP showing M cells and the different immune cell populations. Note the absence of mucus on top of M cells.

T: T cells, B: B cells, DC: dendritic cells, IEL: intraepithelial lymphocyte, FoDC: follicular dendritic cell, IFR: intra-follicular region. Figures 2A and 2B adapted with permission from publisher of [23]