FIG. 2.

Endothelial growth media increases vascular endothelial marker gene expression. (A) RNA was isolated from mesenchymal cells cultured for 1–7 days in DMEM or EGM-2. Gene expression was measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction and represented as fold change compared with cells at day 0 of the experiment (previously cultured only in DMEM; *P<0.05, n=9). (B) Purified VEGF and FGF-2 increased VE-cadherin expression when added to DMEM cultured cells for 7 days. (*P<0.05, n=6). FGF, fibroblast growth factor; VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor.