Thursday, 26 September 2013

Life in a liver vein - SEM


Life in a liver vein - SEM
Macrophages (in blue) doing their work in the central vein of a mouse liver

Courtesy of Hendrik Herrmann
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3 comments:

  1. Ramsez Stamper26 September 2013 at 12:13

    What are the yellow bits?

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  2. Corina Marinescu26 September 2013 at 12:42

    In this pic macrophages (blue) residents in the liver sinusoids scavenge damaged red-blood cells (red) and bacteria (yellow) as they pass through. Hundreds of millions of red-blood cells are removed by the reticuloendothelial system every minute.

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  3. Carles López Arpí26 September 2013 at 12:47

    I'm thinking about bacterias, isn' it ?

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