Rat Ventricular Myocytes

Cardiac myocytes were stained for mitochondria (red), DNA (blue), and F-actin (green) and imaged by
deconvolution microscopy in the UCSD Cancer Center Digital Imaging Shared Resource. Mitochondria
provide some of the energy required for cardiac cells to beat, and F-actin is critical in providing force for
the contraction of heart cells. Perspective views were rendered by Alex DeCastro at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center using NPACI Scalable Visualization Tools. The work is from John W. Adams,
Amy L. Pagel, Christoper K. Means, Donna Oksenberg, Robert C. Armstrong, Joan Heller Brown of the
Department of Pharmacology, UCSD (Circulation Research; 2000 87: 1180 - 1187.)