Scanning Electron Micrograph of a Cytotoxic Lymphocyte Destroying a Tumor Cell:
Remains of the Tumor Cell after Destruction

The CTL is the cell on the left. Two more tumor cells are seen on the right. The debris from the killed tumor cell can be seen underneath.


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