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. 2017 Dec 8;7(1):bio029355. doi: 10.1242/bio.029355

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Fig. 1. — TEM of stomach epithelium of adult Ciona. Stomach epithelium of control animal, not treated with DSS (A). Stomach epithelium of animals treated with 1% DSS (B-D) and 0.5% DSS (E-F) exhibits morphological alterations that include reduction or loss of the microvillar structures and cytoplasmic extroflession in the areas facing the lumen (asterisk). n=8 animals, collected from the wild, observed for each condition. Arrows indicate microvilli of epithelium; triangles indicate cytoplasmic extroflession. Scale bars: 5 µm.