FIB/SEM for Biological Data Mining : Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Cell Sectioning for X-ray Analysis – Part I

✍ Scribed by Marziale Milani; Damjana Drobne; Francesco Tatti

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 407 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1439-4243
• DOI: 10.1002/imic.200790152

✦ Synopsis

We investigated digestive glands (hepatopancreas) of a terrestrial isopod crustacean Porcellio scaber (Isopoda, Crustacea). Hepatopancreas consists of a single layer epithelium, whose cells are covered by microvilli and face the gland lumen. It