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. 2013 Jun 28;8(6):e67303. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067303

Figure 4. The effects of PRP (A) and HGF (B) treatment on mPGES-1 gene expression in tendon cell culture.

Figure 4

IL-1β treatment increased mPGES-1 expression (I), but its effect was almost completely suppressed by PRP (A) or HGF (B) treatment. Note that *P<0.05 is with respect to IL-1β treatment condition (I); and #P<0.05 is with respect to the PRP+IL-1β (P+I) group in A and the HGF+IL-1β (H+I) group in B. The data are expressed as mean ± SD, n  = 4. Label abbreviations and concentrations of all agents (IL-1β, PRP, HGF, and HGF antibody) are identical to legends in Figure 2 . For SD values that are barely visible, the variation in gene expression values was less than 5 (control group, SF is 1).