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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2009 Sep 25;30(35):6695–6701. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.08.039

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Trichrome and Picrosirius red stain comparison of control TC after 3 (a&e) and 5 week (b&f) with cross-linked TC after 3 (c&g) and 5 (d&h) weeks of culture. In trichrome stained sections, collagen stains green and fibrin stains red. In cross-linked samples, more fibrin is visible at the 3 and 5 week time-point compared to control samples. Picrosirius red stain shows brighter red stain, which is an indicator of more mature collagen, after 5 weeks compared to 3 weeks. A 200 µm scale-bar is shown in the top left image.