NES and myocardial infarction: In the infarcted myocardium of the human patients nestin+ capillaries were found in the border zone, whereas the intact cardiac tissue was devoid of nestin immunoreactivity (Mokry et al. 2008; Scobioala et al. 2008) detected nestin in some endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells identified by von Willebrand factor or smooth muscle α-actin, respectively, in the border zone of the myocardial infarction in mice.