Chondrocyte showing organelles - coloured

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Chondrocyte showing organelles - coloured. Rob Young. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Colour-enhanced, transmission electron micrograph showing a cartilage cell from the tibial cartilage. The cell contains a large round nucleus (green), a number of mitochondria and some rough endoplasmic reticulum. The cell is situated in a mass of fine collagen fibrils. This section has been produced from material that has been fixed using high pressure, freeze substitution and low temperature techniques.

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