Cardiac Myocyte Diversity and a Fibroblast Network in the Junctional Region of the Zebrafish Heart Revealed by Transmission and Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lafontant, Pascal J ^a   Behzad, Ali R ^b   Brown, Evelyn ^c   Landry, Paul ^c   Hu, Norman ^d   Burns, Alan R ^c,e  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CARDIAC MYOSIN; COLLAGEN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CAVEOLA; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; DESMOSOME; ELECTRON DENSE TRANSITIONAL CARDIAC MYOCYTE; ELECTRON TRANSLUCENT TRANSITIONAL CARDIAC MYOCYTE; FASCIA; FIBROBLAST NETWORK; FILOPODIUM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERIAL BLOCK FACE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSITIONAL CELL RING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84882944961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072388     Document Type: Article

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