Human Fibroblast (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Human Fibroblast

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This is a confocal micrograph of a primary human fibroblast cell grown in culture stained blue for actin, a highly abundant protein that makes up the cytoskeleton of cells. Energy-producing mitochondria are shown in green.

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Image courtesy of Matthew Daniels, University of Oxford and Wellcome Images.

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