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  • Calcified bone interface showing cell layers
  • 'Adam and Eve figures': female, all layers raised.
  • Anatomical figure dipicting several layers of the skin
  • Composition of multiple layers of acrylic on clear film.
  • Anatomical Fugitive sheet. Adam and Eve Type. Male. Shows the layers.
  • Anatomical Fugitive sheet. Adam and Eve Type. Male. Shows the layers. With flap raised.
  • Layers of tin foil, viewed under x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.
  • Banded iron formations (BIFs) contain well developed iron-rich thin alternating layers or laminations as seen here. This formation occurs due to the lack of burrowing species in the Precambrian period in which this sedimentary rock was created. The name comes from the various coloured layers.
  • Banded iron formations (BIFs) contain well developed iron-rich thin alternating layers or laminations as seen here. This formation occurs due to the lack of burrowing species in the Precambrian period in which this sedimentary rock was created. The name comes from the various coloured layers.
  • French female figure modelled in wax, with first part removed to show superficial layers, ribs and structures of the breast
  • An écorché figure, front view, with left arm extended, showing the outermost layers of the muscles. Line engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1739.
  • An écorché figure, front view, with left arm extended, showing the outermost layers of the muscles. Engraving by G. Scotin after B.S. Albinus, 1747.
  • An écorché figure, front view, with left arm extended, showing the outermost layers of the muscles. Engraving by G. Scotin after B.S. Albinus, 1747.
  • Cellular architecture of normal human skin imaged by whole mount tissue microscopy. Human skin has a rich network of white blood cells (specifically dendritic cells, T cells and macrophages) which form sheaths around blood vessels. This image was taken greater than 150 micrometres beneath the junction that joins the dermal and epidermal layers of the skin (dermo-epidermal junction). At this level, dendritic cells (stained for CD11c; green) and macrophages (stained for LYVE-1; blue) form clusters around blood vessels (stained for CD31; red). This normal cellular architecture is grossly disrupted in diseased skin (see related images). Scale bar (white) represents 100 micrometres.
  • Cellular architecture of normal human skin imaged by whole mount tissue microscopy. Human skin has a rich network of white blood cells (specifically dendritic cells, T cells and macrophages) which form sheaths around blood vessels. This image was taken directly beneath the junction that joins the dermal and epidermal layers of the skin (dermo-epidermal junction). At this level, the capillary network (stained for CD31; red) is visualised against a lawn of autofluorescent dermal papillae (finger-like projections of the dermis; green) scattered with dendritic cells (stained for CD11c; green) and macrophages (stained for LYVE-1; blue). This normal cellular architecture is grossly disrupted in diseased skin (see related images). Scale bar (white) represents 200 micrometres.
  • Cellular architecture of normal human skin imaged by whole mount tissue microscopy. Human skin has a rich network of white blood cells (specifically dendritic cells, T cells and macrophages) which form sheaths around blood vessels. This image was taken less than 20 micrometres beneath the junction that joins the dermal and epidermal layers of the skin (dermo-epidermal junction). At this level, dendritic cells (stained for CD11c; green) form clusters around and between blood capillary loops (stained for CD31; red). The blind-ended tips of initial lymphatic vessels are just visible (stained for LYVE-1; blue) at this level. This normal cellular architecture is grossly disrupted in diseased skin (see related images). Scale bar (white) represents 200 micrometres.
  • 3D view on vessels of a healthy minipig eye. The upper opening corresponds to the pupil as the gateway input of all light into the eye. It is interesting to see the marked abundance of vessels of the pupil which bring energy and food to the muscles to control the amount of incident light. The other large vessels are feeder vessels for the outer layers of the retina and muscles, so, that the eye quickly can perceive the environment and the creature may adapt and survive.
  • Aberrant Bowman's layer
  • Few-layer graphene, SEM
  • Bowman's layer and inflammatory cells
  • Layer of epithelial cells - coloured
  • Tortoise: shell burn - horny layer destroyed
  • Anatomical figures in ivory; 2 females, layer removed
  • Anatomical figures in ivory; 2 females, layer removed
  • Anatomical figures in ivory; 2 females, layer removed
  • A brick-layer. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A brick-layer. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Anatomical figures in ivory; 2 females, layer removed
  • Anatomical figures in ivory; 2 females, with layer removed
  • Anatomical figures in ivory; 1 female, with layer removed