Underlying the inner nuclear membrane is the nuclear lamina, which is a dense filamentous network.
In these laminae, there was a moderate number of tangentially and obliquely oriented fibers with diffused terminals.
There is little spillover into the right eye's unlabelled laminae.
These laminae are, for the most par t, separated by a cell-free zone made up of many fibers.
No blebs are seen between the two laminae of the nuclear envelope, but fragments of intermediate laminae could still be observed between them.
Within this region, the anchoring filaments traverse the electron-translucent zone ('lamina lucida') and connect hemidesmosomes to the electron-dense zone ('lamina densa').
Anteriorly the epithelial cells, 3.3 mm deep, lie on a thick, smooth, basal lamina with no labyrinth layer (fig. 6).
In the female reproductive tract, with the exception of the uterus, the cells lie on a thick, irregular (convoluted) basal lamina.
