Heart Cells (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Heart Cells

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Heart tissue from a normal (wild-type) mouse, with cells stained pink and nuclei in blue, is shown on the left. Hearts from mice missing an important heart enhancer (knockout) exhibit disorganized cell growth, including large spaces between cells (arrow), as shown on the right.

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UC Davis Comparative Pathology Laboratory

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