Figure 1

TEM of rat kidney. A Telocyte with its long telopode is visible under sub-capsular space of kidney, and it is near the capillary. Noting the striking labyrinthine network formed by telopode. Telopode is very long with alternation of podom and podomer. Telocyte connects with macrophages by telopode. (TC: telocyte; Tp: telopode; Mac: macrophage; RBC: red blood cell). Magnification is 5000×, and the scale bar is 2 μm.