Figure 3. Shape and size of MLBs. As seen in bright-field microscopy (A-F), multilamellar bodies (MLBs) from age-related nuclear cataracts are roughly spherical in shape and approximately 2.1 µm in diameter. (D) and (E) demonstrate that MLBs sometimes occur in a doublet formation, and (F) depicts a rare situation where a cluster of small particles are gathered together. Scale bar=5 µm.