Big-Hearted Fish (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Big-Hearted Fish

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This is the enlarged heart of a 48-hour-post-fertilization zebrafish embryo lacking the gene for ccm2. Nuclei from endothelial cells are red and junctions in between are green.

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Yannick Blum and Markus Affolter, University of Basel, Switzerland

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