«While these tumors appear to be
muscle cells under the microscope, and clinicians had thought that they arose from muscle progenitor cells, that didn't explain why the tumors can occur in tissues that don't have skeletal muscle, like bladder, prostate and liver,» he continued.
Not exact matches
To identify which
cells actually filled in excised zebrafish heart
muscle, Izpisúa Belmonte's team first employed some genetic engineering to only make cardiomyocytes «transgenic» by inserting into them a tracer gene that made them glow green
under a
microscope.
Examination
under a
microscope confirmed that the
muscle fibers of the modified mice are denser, the
muscles are more massive, and the
cells in the tissue contain higher numbers of mitochondria — cellular organelles that deliver energy to the
muscles.