Figure 3
Morphology of anterior stroma in the left cornea from which SAXS patterns were obtained. A histological section (left), stained with haematoxylin, shows epithelial cells at the top with underlying Bowman's layer and stromal lamellae running horizontally. Bar = 30 µm. The box indicates a representative location of the region shown by electron microscopy (right). Bowman's layer is a homogeneous meshwork of collagen fibrils (top), overlying the superficial collagenous lamellae which branch and interweave. Bar = 5 µm. |