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Focus of chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the muscular layer of the colon wall
The image is a compressed, full-thickness z-stack of the colonic musclar wall from a mouse chronically infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. It shows a rare nest of amastigote parasites expressing a luciferase-mNeonGreen dual reporter protein (green). Neurons of the enteric nervous system, damage to which underlies the development of the digestive form of Chagas disease, are shown in magenta (neuron-specific beta-tubulin III, TuJ1+). DNA was labelled with Hoechst 33342 (white). Khan et al.
Image Credit: Lewis M, Khan A, 2021
Citation: (2021) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 17(8) August 2021. PLoS Pathog 17(8): ev17.i08. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v17.i08
Published: August 31, 2021
Copyright: © 2021 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The image is a compressed, full-thickness z-stack of the colonic musclar wall from a mouse chronically infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. It shows a rare nest of amastigote parasites expressing a luciferase-mNeonGreen dual reporter protein (green). Neurons of the enteric nervous system, damage to which underlies the development of the digestive form of Chagas disease, are shown in magenta (neuron-specific beta-tubulin III, TuJ1+). DNA was labelled with Hoechst 33342 (white). Khan et al.
Image Credit: Lewis M, Khan A, 2021