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. 2019 Dec 10;9:18756. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55128-4

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Transplanted ENCDCs survive, engraft, and migrate in the aganglionic colon. Two weeks after DT injection, tdT + neurospheres were transplanted into the colon wall and analysis was performed at 3 weeks after cell transplantation. Transplanted tdT + neurospheres (a, open arrow) survive in the aganglionic segment of the colon (a, closed arrows mark endogenous ganglia). Transplanted cells consist of Tuj1 + neurons (b-b”, open arrows) and Tuj1-negative neural crest-derived cells (b-b’, arrowheads). Transplanted tdT + cells (c, open arrows) are found near endogenous ganglia (c, closed arrows) and project fibers within the muscle layers (d, open arrow; closed arrow marks endogenous myenteric plexus. Wnt1-tdT ENCDCs express Tuj1 (b,c,d), Hu (e), nNOS (f), ChAT (g), and p75 (h). Scale bar 50 µm (ah).