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. 2004 Feb;164(2):441–447. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)63134-3

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Heart sections of saline-injected and BMC-treated chronic chagasic mice. BALB/c mice were transplanted intravenously with Ficoll-purified BMCs (3 × 106/mouse) from normal BALB/c donors 10 months after T. cruzi infection. Two months later control (saline-injected) mice (A and C) or BMC-treated mice (B and D) were sacrificed. Heart sections were prepared and stained with H&E (A and B) or Masson’s trichrome staining (C and D). E: Heart sections from C57BL/6 chagasic mice (8 months of infection) sacrificed 2 days after transplantation with Ficoll-purified BMCs obtained from Gtrosa26 transgenic mice. The section was double stained with anti-β-Gal (green) and anti-myosin (red). F–H: Heart sections of chagasic C57BL/6 mice (8 months of infection) sacrificed 4 days after transplantation with Ficoll-purified BMCs (3 × 106/mouse) obtained from EGFP transgenic mice. F and G: EGFP (green) in heart section (counterstained with Evans blue in F). H: Combination of EGFP (green) and myosin (red). Original magnifications: ×100 (C, D); ×200 (A, B, E, G, H); ×400 (F).