Human Heart Precursor Cells Self-Organised Into Human Muscle Fiber In Damaged Mouse Heart (IMAGE)

Duke-NUS Medical School

Human Heart Precursor Cells Self-Organised Into Human Muscle Fiber In Damaged Mouse Heart

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Human cardiovascular progenitors, injected into the damaged region of an infarcted mouse heart, remained in the heart for a long term and self-organised into human muscle fibre. The fibre contains many individual cells clustering together into a bundle. In the above image, human cells are in green and muscle contractile machinery are in red. Heart cells communicate with each other through the cell-to-cell junctions, which are in yellow.

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Duke-NUS Medical School

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