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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 10.
Published in final edited form as: Tissue Eng Part A. 2009 Apr;15(4):851–860. doi: 10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0223

FIG. 4.

FIG. 4

Histological characterization of engineered cardiac tissue. (A, B) Nonstimulated controls. (C, D) Stimulated samples. (A, C) Mason’s trichrome staining. Collagen scaffold stains bright red (*), cells appear dark pink, nuclei appear dark blue, and cell-deposited collagen appears light blue (arrow). (B, D) Immunostaining for smooth muscle actin. Positive cells appear brown (arrow). Scale bar: 50 μm. Color images available online at www.liebertonline.com/ten.