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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2007 Feb 25;28(18):2830–2838. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.02.031

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Degradation of EL scaffolds in vivo. A) Gel image showing MMPs 2 and 9 in EL-Gel scaffolds 7day (Lane 1), EL-Gel scaffolds 28day (Lane 2), EL-Gel-FGF scaffolds 7day (Lane 3) and EL-Gel-FGF scaffolds 28day (Lane 4). B) VVG stain for elastic fibers. Arrows indicate degraded fibers on abluminal side (EL-Gel-FGF) at 28 days. Degradation was observed in both EL-Gel and EL-Gel-FGF samples at 28 days. Original magnification 200 X.