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Encyclopedia > Micrograph

A micrograph is a photograph or similar image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an item. A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ... In common usage, an image (from Latin imago) or picture is an artifact that reproduces the likeness of some subject—usually a physical object or a person. ... 1852 microscope Compound microscope made by John Cuff in 1750 A microscope (Greek: micron = small and scopos = aim) is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. ...


To produce a micrograph, a camera is affixed to a microscope either in place of the eyepiece or a specialist microscope is used which has a camera and eyepiece arrangement. A prepared specimen is put under the microscope in the usual way and photographs taken. In biology, specimen is an individual animal or a plant or a microorganism that is used as a representative to study the properties of the whole population of that species. ...


Types of micrographs

A transmission electron microscope. ...

External link

  • "Microscopy, Electron" at BioResearch, containing links to many examples of electron micrography.

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Micrograph from J. Esposito, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and F. Murphy, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis.
Two hallmarks of rabies virus infection are seen — there is minimal damage seen to the structure of infected neurons even though the extent of the infection is dramatic, and large numbers of bullet-shaped virions accumulate as a result of budding upon the endoplasmic reticulum membranes of these cells.
In this micrograph virions are seen budding into membrane vesicles (Golgi vesicles) in the cytoplasm of a liver cell (hepatocyte) of an infected rat.
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Micrographs must be submitted as an 8 inch by 10 inch foil and must be accompanied by a completed entry sheet.
Electron and ion micrographs must be fl and white.
The micrograph is taken from a cross-section of a multiplayer structure of two amorphous polymers, poly-methylmethacrylate (PMMA) and polystyrene (PS).
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