Heart Muscle Cells (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Heart Muscle Cells

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Stem cells play a part in heart regeneration. This image of the fluorescence microscope depicts a section of the heart tissue of a mouse. The green coloring of the cells in the middle shows that the cell originated from a so-called Sca1 stem cell.

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MPI for Heart and Lung Research

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