Scanning Electron Micrograph of a Cytotoxic Lymphocyte Destroying a Tumor Cell:
Begining of Cytolysis of the Tumor Cell

The CTL is the cell on the left. The tumor cell membrane has become leaky and influx of water is causing it to swell. A largecavity is forming on the tumor cell.


Cytotoxic Lymphocyte Destroying a Tumor Cell. © John Ding-E Young, Chau-Ching Lin, and Gilla Kaplan, authors.
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