Figure 4.
Effect of electroporation of bone marrow cells with CXCR4 shRNA on hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension and vascular remodeling in rats: (A) Percent wall thickness. *p < 0.05 as compared with normoxia and hypoxic controls. # p < 0.05 as compared with normoxia and BMC+CXCR4. $p < 0.05 as compared with normoxia. (B) Body weight change. # p < 0.05 as compared with normoxia. *p < 0.05 as compared with normoxia and hypoxic controls. (C) hematocrit. *p < 0.05 as compared with normoxia control. n = 5 rats for each group. BMC = transplantation of bone marrow cells without shRNA, BMC+S-RNA = transplantation of bone marrow cells with scrambled shRNA, BMC+ CXCR4 = transplantation of bone marrow cells with CXCR4 shRNA.