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Figure 1. TEM analysis of the morphology of CTs in the Xenopus tropicalis heart. A, Schematic of the upper region, middle region and base of the X tropicalis heart for TEM analysis. B, Representative CTs with a hallmark ultrastructural morphology: a thin perinuclear rim of cytoplasm with few organelles and thin cytoplasmic veils containing mitochondria. Long telopodes (up to 100 μm), which represent cellular prolongations of the telocytes with moniliform (segments approximately 100 nm thick, named podoms) processes. C, A representative CT cell body (arrowhead: microvesicle). D, A representative telopode with podom (white arrow: podom; arrowhead: microvesicle). E, A representative telopode with many microvesicles (arrowhead) and secreted microvesicle (white arrowhead). F, A representative podom containing mitochondria. G, CTs in mitosis. CT: Cardiac telocyte; M: Cardiomyocyte; Mt: Mitochondria; N: Nucleus; Scale bar: Size as shown in the figures; Tp: Telopode Image published in: Lv L et al. (2020) © 2020 The Authors. This image is reproduced with permission of the journal and the copyright holder. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license Larger Image Printer Friendly View |