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Figure 10.
Freeze-fracture replica of an arterial capillary segment. Rows of membrane-intercalated
particles characteristic of tight occluding junctions are evident. Grooves remain where other particles
have been removed with the complementary fractured piece. Original (top). Only a small fraction
(top left corner) of the original was left after cropping, greatly enhancing the detail. The bottom,
cropped electron micrograph was published in Microvascular Research 34:349–362, 1987.
(Courtesy of Roger C. Wagner and Academic Press, Inc.)

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photographs. By such ''framing," you can place crop marks where they give you the best picture.

Necessary Keys and Guides

If you can't crop down to the features of special interest, consider superimposing arrows or letters on the photographs.
In this way, you can draw the reader's attention to the significant features, while making it easy to construct
meaningful legends.

Always mark "top" on what you consider to be the top of the photograph. Mark it on the back, with a soft pencil.
Otherwise, the photograph (unless it has a very obvious top) may be printed upside down or sideways. If the

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