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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Mar 6;59(10):942–953. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.11.029

Figure 3. In vitro myogenic differentiation and angiogenesis assay.

Figure 3

A) Troponin T, with distinct myocyte-like appearance, was expressed spontaneously in a fraction of CDCs cultured for 7 days. This cardiac-specific marker was rarely expressed in BM-MSCs, AD-MSCs, and BM-MNCs. B) Quantitative analysis of Troponin T expression (n=3) in CDCs (9% of the cells positive), BM-MSCs (0.4% positive) and AD-MSCs and BM-MNCs (approximately 0.1% positive). C) CDCs, BM-MSCs, and AD-MSCs produced capillary-like tube formations in extracellular matrix. BM-MNCs did not form similar structures under these conditions. D) Quantitation and comparison of tube formation capacity by the different cell types (n=3). Bars = 50 um.