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| Figure 1: Evidence of cardiac fibrosis in the diabetic heart 6 weeks post streptozotocin injection. Picosirius red staining of the rat myocardium shows the presence of cardiac fibrosis (golden red) in the left ventricle of heart tissue from STZ type I diabetic animals (right panel), as compared to heart tissue from age- and strain-matched wild type controls (left panel). Scale bar represents 200µm. |
