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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2009 Apr 17;47(2):275–287. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2009.04.005

Figure 5. Cardiac tissue fibrosis and remodeling in MI hearts treated with MSC and HBO.

Figure 5

Masson-trichrome staining of heart sections was performed in infarcted hearts (MI), and infarcted hearts treated with HBO (HBO), MSC (MSC) or MSC followed by HBO (MSC+HBO) at 2 weeks after transplantation of MSCs. (A) Representative images of heart sections stained with Masson-trichrome. (B) Percentage of fibrosis and LV wall thickness (LV-WT), as determined by computer planimetry. Data represent mean±SD obtained from 6 hearts per group. The MSC+HBO group exhibits a significant reduction in the fibrosis and improvement in LV-WT when compared to MSC group.