Cell Death and Birth (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Cell Death and Birth

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In the first-ever images of the death and birth of intestinal nerve cells, the first photograph depicts the loss of adult mouse enteric nerve cells. The red shapes are dead neurons. Neurons that are stained with a green nuclear dye are marked for programmed cell death.

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Pankaj Jay Pasricha lab, Johns Hopkins Division of Gastroenterology

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