diff --git a/src/core/components/operations.jsx b/src/core/components/operations.jsx
index 82bf62a3..8e282a60 100644
--- a/src/core/components/operations.jsx
+++ b/src/core/components/operations.jsx
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export default class Operations extends React.Component {
 
     const Operation = getComponent("operation")
     const Collapse = getComponent("Collapse")
+    const Markdown = getComponent("Markdown")
 
     let showSummary = layoutSelectors.showSummary()
     let {
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ export default class Operations extends React.Component {
                     </a>
                     { !tagDescription ? null :
                         <small>
-                          { tagDescription }
+                          <Markdown source={tagDescription} />
                         </small>
                     }
 
diff --git a/src/core/components/response.jsx b/src/core/components/response.jsx
index 8aad5109..62955f75 100644
--- a/src/core/components/response.jsx
+++ b/src/core/components/response.jsx
@@ -107,6 +107,14 @@ export default class Response extends React.Component {
         includeWriteOnly: true // writeOnly has no filtering effect in swagger 2.0
        }) : null
     }
+
+    if(examples) {
+      examples = examples.map(example => {
+        // Remove unwanted properties from examples
+        return example.set("$$ref", undefined)
+      })
+    }
+
     let example = getExampleComponent( sampleResponse, examples, HighlightCode )
 
     return (