Illustration and microscopy images of coculture platform where a neurosphere is cultured with four target tissues (IMAGE)

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Illustration and microscopy images of coculture platform where a neurosphere is cultured with four target tissues

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Illustration and microscopy images of coculture platform where a neurosphere is cultured with four target tissues. Within three days, neurons extend toward and make connections with targets. Fluorescence microscopy image shows muscles in magenta, neurons in green, and cell nuclei in blue. All scale bars: 500 micrometers

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Image courtesy of the authors. Fluorescence microscopy image (bottom left) taken at the Core Facilities in Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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