Diabetes
and obesity study in Zucker rats.
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Electron
micrograph showing ultrastructure of large islets isolated from a rat.
Islets were enzymatically isolated from the pancreas and cultured in
glucose. Note presence of fused granules. Scale bar 0.6 micrometers.
Research by Dr. Cathy
Chan, Department of Biomedical Sciences,
Atlantic Veterinary College.
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Extracellular
matrix study in lamprey.
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Beaded
microfibrils showing a distinct periodicity constitute the main
structural components of the extracellular matrix in the wall of the
lobster abdominal artery. Scale bar = 220 nanometers.
Research project of Dr.
Glenda Wright, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Atlantic
Veterinary College.
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Diagnostic
investigation of fish diseases. |
Electron micrograph of a
lamellar capillar lining and lumen from the gill of a fingerling
Atlantic salmon infected with Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) Virus.
N=Nucleus of Pillar/Endothelial Cell lining the capillary wall;
M=Mitochondria of the Pillar Cell; E=Cytoplasm of an erythrocyte;
Arrow=Orthomyxo-like virions of ISA in the lumen of the
capillary.
Case study of Dr.
David Groman, Dept. of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic
Veterinary College. |
Wildlife
diseases.
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Apical region of
an acinar cell from the salivary gland of a red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
with rabies of probable bat origin. This micrograph shows the typical
bullet shape of a rhadbovirus. (See: Journal of Wildlife Diseases
vol.32, pp.403-406, 1996.)
Case study of Dr.Pierre-Yves
Daoust, Dept. of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary
College. |
Resistance
to the microsporidian Loma salmonae in rainbow trout.
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Transmission
electron micrograph of a xenoma containing spores (S), meronts (M),
sporonts (Sp) and cylindrical plasmodia (Cp). Gill from a rainbow
trout. Scale
bar = 0.6 micrometers.
PhD project of Dr. Luis
Rodriguez, supervisors Dr.
David Speare and Dr.
Fred Markham, Dept. of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic
Veterinary College. |
