Colonic Cells to Study Mucus Secretion (IMAGE)

Center for Genomic Regulation

Colonic Cells to Study Mucus Secretion

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Colonic cells are cultured in the lab and differentiated to accumulate mucus. In the image, nuclei are stained in red, in green at the left is the actin (the skeleton that holds the cells) and at the right the mucus granules.

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Gerard Cantero -Recasens, CRG.

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