What is “the basal body part”? Basal body is an organelle of eukaryotic cell. If this means the connection of junctional pore tube and inner membrane, it is clearly seen in the figure, as well as in old paper by Halfen and Castenholz. A high quality figure is provided as Supplementary Figure S1. The “bulges” in the inner membrane are also visible. In the Line 183, the description was revised.
Please omit the description of the basal body part of the junctional pores or provide substantially better pictures. Even after careful inspection of your images, I cannot convince myself of seeing these parts. Moreover, in cryo-preserved and freeze-fractured cells there are no such structures visible. That does not mean that they don’t exist, it may only mean that none of the so far used preservation methods reveals these structures.