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English: An isolated Interstitial cell of Cajal from the Myenteric plexus of the mouse small intestine grown in a primary cell culture. They can be characterized morphologically as having a small cell body often triangular or stellate-shaped with several long processes branching out into secondary and tertiary extensions - these processes often contact smooth muscle cells. They have contractile behaviour in both the cell body and the extended processes.
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Author Topictyper

The picture was taking with a Nikon light microscope at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

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Interstitial Cell of Cajal

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