Animal Remains in Iceman's Stomach (IMAGE)

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Animal Remains in Iceman's Stomach

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This image shows wo large bundles of muscle fibers. Confocal laser scanning microscopy image. The scale bar indicates 1mm. Magnified image of one muscle fibre bundle. The scale bar indicates 20μm. The long cylindrical unbranched muscle cells often appear in bundles and still display striated fiber structures running perpendicular to the long fiber axis characteristic for cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue.

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Institute for Mummy Studies\Eurac Research\Frank Maixner

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