Figure 1:

Representative image of immunostaining of infraspinatus tendon for decorin (A,E,I,M), biglycan (B,F,J,N), COL1A1 (C,G,K,O), and COL3A1 (D,H,L,P). Mean intensity of staining and % area of staining of decorin (a,e), biglycan (b,f), COL1A1 (c,g), and COL3A1 (d,h). HYP-L indicates group of swines that received cholesterol-high-fat diet but no surgery. RCI-CS indicates uninjured tendon from contralateral side of swine that underwent either injury or injury + repair surgery and cholesterol-high-fat diet. RCI-IS indicates tendon tissues that had either of the surgery. CONT indicates control group of swines that received normal diet and no surgery. The images were acquired using 20x objective. Values are shown as mean ± SD; n=3–4). * P<0.05, ** P<0.01, *** P<0.001, **** P<0.0001.