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(c) 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.