FIG. 5.

Heart sections were stained for c-kit and co-labeled with endothelial cell marker CD31 antibody. Representative photomicrographs show c-kit^+ve staining green (A and E); CD31, red (B and F); total nuclei stained with DAPI in blue (C and G). Merged images of all three labeled sections are shown in D and H (40 ×). Data are from the set of 3–5 different animals. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article at www.liebertonline.com/ars).