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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: PM R. 2009 Jun;1(6):547–559. doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.02.013

Figure 2. Perivascular stem cells home to the site of muscle injury.

Figure 2

Figure 2

A. MRI of mouse following intramuscular injection of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) or cadiotoxin (CTX) B. Femoral artery injection method in mice. Square indicates catheter insertion site, solid arrow indicates catheter path, dotted arrow indicates path of injected cells. C. Untreated control mouse. D. Mouse injected with iron oxide-labeled perivascular stem cells. E. and F. Mouse injected first with CTX, then with labeled cells. Circled area indicates region of labeled cells. Coronal and axial views shown in E and F, respectively.