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. 2012 Jan;1(1):50–53. doi: 10.1089/biores.2012.0206

FIG. 1.

FIG. 1.

The effect of the cellular substrata on the bipotent mouse oval cell line (BMOL) morphology and stem cell marker. (A) Phase-contrast microscopy images representative of the BMOL morphology on different matrices at 20× magnification. The images were captured using an Axiocam MRC (Zeiss) connected to an Axiovert 200 inverted microscope (Zeiss). (B) Quantitative polymerase chain reaction of the stem cell marker SOX-9 in BMOL cultured on different surfaces, showing a significant upregulation of SOX-9 expression on cells maintained on laminin and PU134 in comparison with plastic. Relative expression refers to folds of induction of the gene compared with the endogenous gene control, peptidylprolyl isomerase A (PPIA). Data are expressed as mean±standard deviation (s.d.), *p<0.05, **p<0.01, and n=3. Scale bar represents 50 μm.