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Fig. 3 | Lipids in Health and Disease

Fig. 3

From: Role of ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in diabetic retinopathy: a morphological and metabolically cross talk among blood retina barriers damage, autoimmunity and chronic inflammation

Fig. 3

Higher magnification of the layers 9 to 11 plus CC of normal retina as depicted in Fig. 1. Fenestrated endothelia (arrows) with thinny BM and some pericytes (p) of bv within loose ct of CC layer which locate closer to Bruch membrane (indicated with a black triangle, ▼).; rods and cones inner segments (RCIS) are deeply allocated within entangled thin processes of PEC . The basal plasmalemma of PEC, underlying the BM, have complicated recesses sealed by ZO, ZA and desmosomes (D). Within these processes abundant pigment granules (pg) and lysofagosomes (lf) are visualized intermixed within a vast and intricated network of cisterns and vesicles of smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER). Few aged sacs of rod and cones partially digested appears as myelin-like figures (filled black arrow)

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Lipids in Health and Disease

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