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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2018 Jan 31;118:89–98. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2018.01.020

Figure 7. The BMA and bone interface #1.

Figure 7

The tibial bone marrow adipocyte (BMA) extends a cell process toward an active osteoblast-appearing cell (orange pseudocolor). The BMA nucleus (N) is crescent shaped with a ring of condensed heterochromatin and an associated nucleolus. The BMA cell extension contains prominent endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and lipid droplets (L) and is near to many smaller vesicles in the extracellular space (inset). The BMA is also associated with an adjacent blood cell of the myeloid/granulocyte lineage (M/G). Several additional granulocytes are noted in the surrounding bone marrow. Imaging location: C3H/HeJ mouse, proximal tibia (Dataset #3).