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Bat Kidney
- Description
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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
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11 Sep 2008