Fig. 5. (A) Images from a representative example of an endothelial wound healing test, showing the wound at the beginning of the experiment and after 24 h the culture medium was replaced by apneic rat serum. Red and yellow lines indicate the initial and final wound borders. (B) Normalized index for wound closure when the endothelial cells were cultured in medium consisting of serum of control rats and of rats subjected to recurrent obstructive apneas, with or without preconditioning with mesenchymal stem cells (MSC). Data are mean±SEM.Reproduced from reference 24 with permission.
