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Figure 8

From: Long-term biopersistence of tangled oxidized carbon nanotubes inside and outside macrophages in rat subcutaneous tissue

Figure 8

Illustration of t-ox-MWCNTs in rat subcutaneous tissue at 2 years after implantation.

(a) Illustration of t-ox-MWCNTs in the secondary lysosome within a macrophage. The outer layers of t-ox-MWCNTs in the lysosomes of macrophages are partially biodegraded. (b) Illustration of t-ox-MWCNTs located outside the macrophage. The large t-ox-MWCNT agglomerates present in the intercellular space are not biodegraded.

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