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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2010 Sep 19;32(2):410–418. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.08.105

Figure 6. Micropatterning limits VSMC response to TGFβ1 stimulation at passage 5.

Figure 6

(A) Representative blots for non-patterned (N) and patterned (P) VSMCs, without treatment or with 10 ng/ml TGFβ1 stimulation overnight under serum-free conditions. (B) SM-MHC was significantly higher in non-patterned VSMCs (solid) vs. patterned VSMCs (striped) stimulated with TGFβ1. (C) TGFβ1 stimulation did not result in a significant difference in α-actin expression in non-patterned vs. patterned VSMCs. B & C show mean ± SD for n = 3. The non-treated, non-patterned means are normalized to unity and all other conditions are expressed as a relative change. * indicates significant difference for p < 0.05.