School of Animal Biology

Bat Kidney

Description

A photomicrograph of a vascular cast of a knot of capillaries (glomerulus) in a bat kidney. The cast was produced by displacing the blood from the vessels in a bat kidney and replacing this with perspex resin. The tissue was then corroded away to reveal a perfect resin cast of the vasculature. The casts are then examined using a scanning electronmicroscope and the structural features of the vessels are related to the function of the kidney. Photo by Jamie O'Shea

Image information

400x300 at 72 dpi

Date image taken

11 Sep 2008