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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Cytotherapy. 2010 Aug 31;12(8):971–981. doi: 10.3109/14653249.2010.509394

Figure 7.

Figure 7

The average telomere length (ATL) of early passage MSC does not correlate to donor age. MSC were isolated from donors of various ages. At 28 days in culture, DNA was harvested from one million cells, digested by restriction enzymes and subject to Southern blot using a dig-labeled telomere probe: (TTAGGG)3. Average telomere lengths were determined by scanning the resulting Southern blot and using the Telometric™ software program for the analysis (20). Pearson correlation for ATL was -0.270, p-value = 0.101. Results in Panel B are displayed comparing the age groups 0.8 - 18 years and 19 - 58 years where a Student's t-test showed p = 0.67.