Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2020 Mar 3;17(5):1650. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051650

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2020 by the authors.

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

TEM micrographs of arsenite treated cells. (a) View of a vegetative cell in longitudinal section; (12k ×), (b) Severe disorganization of photoreceptive stigma (60k ×). (c) Starch deposits, mitochondria, and alterations in thylakoid membranes (40k ×), (d) Nanoparticles-like embedded in the polysaccharidic capsule, (60k ×). (e) Altered nuclear pattern (60k ×). (f) Vegetative cell showing lipid droplets, bioaccumulation, starch deposits, and exopolymer discharge (12k ×). (g) Cytoplasmic nanoparticles-like into vacuoles (40k ×). (h) Full vacuoles expelled outside cell (12k ×). S—Starch deposits; P—pyrenoid; St—stigma; V—vacuole; Td—thylakoids; C—capsule; Np—nanoparticles-like; Mit—mitochondria; CW—cell wall; N—nucleus.