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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Microcirculation. 2012 May;19(4):306–315. doi: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2012.00163.x

Figure 1. Diaphragm muscle preparation.

Figure 1

Reconstructed image of the diaphragm muscle preparation from a C57BL/6 mouse as viewed from the thoracic cavity. The vascular supply (arteriolar networks) is shown in red, phrenic nerves in blue and motor endplate regions are shaded gray. Note numerous anastomoses among arteriolar networks supplied by multiple feed arteries entering around periphery of the diaphragm (yellow arrowheads) arising from respective branches of the phrenic arteries. In contrast, left and right phrenic nerves enter near the central region of the costal diaphragm and branch into respective muscle regions.