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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2011 Jun 23;32(29):6972–6981. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.05.088

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Tissue formation after implantation of hPTSCs with and without ETM into the back of nude rats. The cells were implanted with ETM (A–C) or without ETM (D–F). Normal tendon tissues of the same rats were used as control (G–I). It is seen that the implantation of hPTSCs with ETM resulted in newly formed, tendon-like tissues, as shown by immunostaining for human collagen type I (A, red bands) and H&E staining for collagen bundles (C, triangle). In contrast, implantation of hPTSCs alone did not result in the formation of tendon-like tissues (D). Bar: 100 μm.