Representative α smooth muscle actin slices for vascular staining. The
red or dark brown regions represent stained smooth muscle cells in blood
vessels. The animal with large amount of positive staining produced high
perfusion values from hyperpolarized HMCP imaging (a, mean nMP=0.5, mean
nAU=0.6), while the animal with small amount of positive staining
produced small perfusion values hyperpolarized HMCP imaging (b, mean
nMP=0.2, mean nAU=0.3). All images are at 200×
magnification.