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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Med (Berl). 2011 May 24;89(10):947–959. doi: 10.1007/s00109-011-0769-8

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Vascular niches. Tangential section of a human epicardial coronary artery composed of a few layers of SMCs (α-SMA; red). At the interface between the adventitia and the SMC layer, three small clusters of c-kit-positive cells (green) are present and are shown at higher magnification in the adjacent panels. The c-kit-positive cells express KDR. Cx43 (arrows) is detected between c-kit-KDR-positive cells and fibroblasts (procoll; magenta).

(Taken from ref. 39 with permission)