. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 8.

Published in final edited form as: J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2013 May 8;10(5):437–446. doi: 10.1002/term.1757

Table 2.

Summary of relative changes in gene expression levels for VFFs and BM-MSCs during monoculture and after co-culture

	Collagen I	Collagen III	MMP1	TIMP3	VEGF	HGF	IL-6
Monocultured normal VFFs control
Monocultured scarred VFFs	▲^*	▲^**	▲^**	▲^*	▼^*	▼^*	▲^**
Monocultured normal VFFs control
Co-cultured normal VFFs with BM-MSCs	—	▼^*	▲^*	—	▲^*	▲^**	—
Monocultured scarred VFFs control
Co-cultured scarred VFFs with BM-MSCs	▲^*	▼^*	▲^**	▲^*	▲^**	▲^**	▼^*
Monocultured BM-MSCs control
Co-cultured BM-MSCs with normal VFFs	▲^**	—	—	▼^*	▼^**	▲^**	▼^**
Co-cultured BM-MSCs with scarred VFFs	—	▲^**	▲^**	—	▼^*	▲^**	▼^*

▲, Upregulation

▼, downregulation

—, no significant change

p <0.05

^**

p <0.01.