Figure 1


Figure 1

Confocal images of human skin from normal (left) and diabetic (right) subjects. Nerves in epidermis appear green and yellow, basement membrane separating the epidermis from the dermis and also surrounding blood vessels appears red. The top images have the most epidermal nerve fibers (ENFs) the bottom the least from all subjects studied. Note the loss of ENFs in the diabetic subjects. Scale bars equal 100µm.



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