FIGURE 8.

The relative mean ± S.E. (error bars) collagen content from untreated BJ3 fibroblasts and from cells treated with TGF-β1 (2 ng/ml) alone, with H2:A(4–24)(F23A) alone, or with native H2 relaxin (16.8 nm) or H2:A(4–24)(F23A) (16.8 nm) in TGF-β1 (2 ng/ml)-stimulated cells. All data are expressed as the relative ratio of collagen content measured in the untreated group, which was expressed as 1, whereas the numbers in parentheses represent the number of separate experiments that were conducted for each group in triplicate. *, p < 0.001 versus the untreated group; #, p < 0.01 versus the TGF-β1 alone-treated group.