Emmanuel Zorn & team discover plasma cells in human cardiac allografts with vasculopathy target bilirubin, revealing local heme catabolism:
The image shows immunofluorescence staining for bilirubin (green) and a-smooth muscle cell actin (red) of cardiac tissue with CAV.
1Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
2Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.
3Kidney Transplant Unit, Nephrology Department, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.