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Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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The micrograph shows a peripheral nerve, with the neuromuscular endplates stained in red. The nerve-cell mitochondria were imaged with a fluorescent redox sensor (green in the cytoplasm, yellow at the endplates).

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M. Kerschensteiner and T. Misgeld

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