Awesome polysomes in a guinea pig type II alveolar cell!

There is no underlying point for this, just was this wonderful coil of polysomes in a type Ii alveolar pneumocyte from a guinea pig and wanted to capture the “beauty”.

Original unedited micrograph (to estimate magnification, each ribosomes is about 20 nm in diameter) is grey scale (L) and a few of the ribosomes and the polysomes are pseudocolored purple (R).

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