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Blue Spleenies 

Blue Spleenies 

Punya Gupta, Tyler Jacks

This is a cross-sectional image of a spleen from a mouse, in which we can see clearly visualize the spatial distribution of different cell types.

We can identify a prominent macrophage population and distinct T cell zones in the spleen of our murine model.

Light blue rounded shapes surrounded by grey rough terrain

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Keywords

  • 2025
  • cell differentiation
  • cell proliferation
  • confocal microscopy
  • Jacks Laboratory
  • macrophages

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