Skip to main content
. 2010 Oct;177(4):1710–1724. doi: 10.2353/ajpath.2010.090903

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Myofibroblasts are associated with the collagen capsule and granulation tissue in NTD (1-35) and mod NTD (1-35) treatment groups at day seven. Top two panels: Masson's trichrome stain. Bottom two panels: Immunohistochemical staining for α-SMA. Images are from representative serial sections. Insets show magnified sections of the pericapsular region (hatched boxes) from the ventral side of the sponge (S). Muscle from the panniculus carnosus is visible in the NTD (1-35)-EGFP sponge (reddish tissue). Arrowheads in insets mark α-SMA–stained cells. Asterisk denotes a blood vessel in the muscle layer with positive α-SMA staining of the vessel wall. S indicates sponge material; GAM, gene-activated matrix; brackets in insets denote the capsular layer. Scale bar = 100 μm.