Kidney - proximal convoluted tubule

  • Dr David Furness
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Kidney - proximal convoluted tubule. Dr David Furness. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Proximal convoluted tubule from the kidney. Several cells surround the lumen of the tubule which is lined with microvilli. All the cells are packed with mitochondria and a nucleus (brown) is visble within one of the cells. This a colour- enhanced scanning electron micrograph of a freeze- fractured sample.

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