Failing Heart Cells (IMAGE)

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Failing Heart Cells

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This microscopic image shows a population of donated heart cells from an adult heart failure patient who underwent reparative surgery. The purity of the failing fibroblast cells was confirmed by testing for fibroblast markers vimentin and actin (red and green colors, respectively). Researchers tested an experimental treatment for cardiac injury in the cells in research published by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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