The ER tubules in the spasmoneme bear elements of the linkage complex, both the mid piece and rails. These elements are more disperse than in the body of the cell. The fibers from the mid piece pass i...

Freeze fracture of Vorticella microstoma. This cell had been placed in a relaxing medium of saturated sodium pyrophosphate plus 0.01M EDTA (Stain Tech. 47:37, 1972) for 3 hours. A myoneme enclosed by ...

Figure 431 from Chapter 16 (Cytoplasmic matrix and cytoskeleton) of 'The Cell, 2nd Ed.' by Don W. Fawcett M.D. Asynchronous flight muscle of the fly Bombylius major. In all axes, actin filaments are ...

Single computed slice from a tomographic reconstruction of a 500 nm section through the middle free wall of a cardiac myocyte from the left ventricle of an adult mouse (6-8 months of age), stained wit...

The image shows the surface of the ribbon-like myofibrils, with some remnants of the SR attached mostly at the Z lines. The regular disposition of attached cross bridges is visible in many areas. Mo...