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madame scientist's not-so-mad musings 
Fascinating! Obviously it’s a depressurized artery, but the red blood cells don’t appear to be consolidated in a clot, how was that accomplished?
Maybe they used an anticoagulant while preparing the sample?
wow
Wow! I always imagined blood to be a liquid with bloodcells in it, not like 99% blood cells alltogether!
It looks like macaroni!
Indeed Albin Thorning, nearly half the blood’s volume consists of red blood cells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematocrit
If it’s an artery, why can’t we see the three layers? (Tunicae intima, media, et adventitia?)
It’s an arteriole, I believe. We would have to dig through Google image search results and find the original description 😛
Exactly Rajini Rao, just a step up from a capillary, as clearly denoted by the relative sizes of the vessel and the blood cells.
Good to know, thanks Elias Friedman !
Great photo!!
Looks like a false color SEM micrograph. Quite beautiful arteriole!
The dof of her shots amaze me!!
I had been missing these kind of posts from you! love this one!