Lycium Barbarum Polysaccharides Improve Retinopathy in Diabetic Sprague-Dawley Rats

Figure 4

Representative photomicrographs of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained retinal sections. In control retina, the cells in the inner nuclear layer and ganglion cell layer are uniformly distributed. In diabetic retinas (20 weeks after onset of diabetes), large number of pyknotic nuclei appear in the inner nuclear layer and there are areas of cellular dropout in the ganglion cell layer. The thinner ONL is observed in DM retina (b), while LBP preserved the thickness of the ONL ((c) and (d)). Quantification of the ONL thickness is given in (e).

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