Repairing Skull Bone
Section of mouse calvarial bone days after injury imaged through second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy, revealing changes in collagen organization and tissue remodeling. The SHG signal of fibrillar collagen is displayed in green, while blue shows the autofluorescence of primarily organic, non-collagen components in bone tissue.
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—Maria Alice Paularie, Bruno Henrique Costa, Emerson Alberto da Fonseca, Leandro M. Malard, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Érika Lorena Fonseca Costa de Alvarenga, Br