Fixation methods for electron microscopy of human and other liver

Figure 17 SEM micrograph of rabbit liver, fractured after CPD. In such preparations, the fracture plane separates the intact lateral cell membranes of parenchymal cells, which exposes the bile canaliculi, which are strictly separated from the sinusoids (to the extreme left). The right hand side of the picture shows a bile duct. The luminal surface of the bile duct epithelial cells is covered with numerous small microvilli and single cilia protruding into the lumen of the bile duct.