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. 2010 Jan 25;11:15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-11-15

Table 2.

Semi-Quantitative Scale of Collagen Type I, Type III, TGF-β1, TGF-2 and TGF-β3 in Contraction Band and Adjacent Muscle

Collagen Type I Collagen Type III TGF-β1 TGF-β2 TGF-β3
Adjacent Muscle + -
Fibroblasts + - +
Endothelial cell + - +
Contraction Band +++ ++
Fibroblasts +++ + ++
Endothelial cell +++ + ++

Semi-quantitative scale: (-) = no staining; (+) = weak staining; (++) = moderate staining; and (+++) = strong staining.

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