CIL:354, Mus musculus, skeletal muscle cell. In Cell Image Library

Thin section electron microscopy of gastrocnemius (skeletal) muscle from a wild type mouse. Section was stained with warm uranyl acetate stain.

Sample was viewed with a Hitachi 7600 electron microscope (accelerating voltage 80 KV) and imaged with an AMT digital camera. Image taken at 40,000X magnification.

This image is part of a set of wild type gastrocnemius muscle images that served as controls for the study of the delta-sarcoglycan knockout mouse. Both the set of wild-type and delta-sarcoglycan knockout mouse images are part of The CELL: an image library.

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