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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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The illustration shows a section of mouse spinal cord under a fluorescence microscope. DMF works on the immune cells (red), which are responsible for damaging the nerve fibres. Cell nuclei appear as blue.

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MPI for Heart and Lung Research

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