I tried to figure out the transmission electron micrographs of an article on desmoplakin and intermediate filament attachment in cultured cells by Bornslaeger et al, The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 134, Number 4, August 1996 985-1001 and really found the descriptions and TEMs difficult to interpret. Not diminishing their efforts, the micrograph B is clearly not the same magnification as the others which were all pinned under their micron marker of 100nm. Secondly they point to some strange thing as the IF in their first and second images (not shown in what i cropped as the left (A and B) images when there are IF that could have been pointed out just above the inner dense plaque. The IFs which are not connected to the inner dense plaque (they attribute to the loss of functional desmoplakin IF connections) are easy to see in E and E  (both from their figure E, i cut and pasted two portions from their figure). I guess they accomplished what they set out to acomplish… the diminution of the inner plaque and loss of densities beside-with-attached-to the adjacent IFs. I sure didnt enjoy reading this overly acronymish publication (haha).  Desmoplakin is an abundant molecule in desmosome formation, and accounts for some serious electron density  in the inner plaque region.  It is interesting, too, that the IFs are parallel to the plasmalemma, regardless of the blocking of functional desmoplakin, this orientation did not change from what is typically seen.