Cover submission to JBC which was a finalist but didn’t make the cut

How awesome is this composite of gastric epithelium (light micrographs) put together in a collage of images with the forestomach images in the upper right outside, and the glandular stomach on the outside lower left and bottom and all the glandular stomach epithelium at lower magnification with light microscopy surrounding two higher magnification (100x at least) images within the center.  Too bad this didn’t make it on the cover of JBC.  Here is a mockup of what could have been.  LOL.   Still a great image.  I have to consider these cover rejections as just part of the competition in scientific illustration.

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