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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Res Bull. 2009 Nov 6;81(2-3):287. doi: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2009.10.019

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Increase of αSMA expression along with the progression of myofibroblast formation in the postnatal TGFβ1 transgenic cornea. α-SMA expression was not detected in the transgenic cornea at postnatal day (P) 0 (A). A few α-SMA-positive cells were found at P2 (B) and the number of α–SMA-expressing cells increased significantly between P6 to P30 (C–F). The myofibroblast-like morphology became visible in the transgenic cornea at P16 (D). By P30 almost all of the αSMA-positive cells in the transgenic cornea were transformed into myofibroblast phenotypes including irregular shape, and the presence of stress fibers.