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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2014 Mar 22;190(1):1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.03.051

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Characterization of VICs. Using explanted human hearts, VICs were isolated from the aortic (A), pulmonary (B), mitral (C), and tricuspid (D) valves. Cells are stained for alphasmooth muscle actin (red), vimentin (green), and nuclear counterstain (blue). All four VICs types exhibit myofibroblast phenotype. Bar = 30μm