Picture of the Month – May 2012
“VICs and VECs” — Valve endothelial cells (VECs) are interspersed within an isotropic monolayer of valve interstitial cells (VICs). The monolayer is immunostained for VEC indicative CD31 (green) and VIC indicative alpha SMA (red) as well as dyed for filamentous actin (yellow) and nuclei (blue).