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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2013 Aug 27;42(1):149–161. doi: 10.1007/s10439-013-0894-3

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Collagen fiber morphology and arrangement by transformed and non-transformed VEC. A. Collagen fibers in control gels (left panel) have random alignment and length. Control VEC seeded on the surface of a control gel did not change the alignment of collagen fibers (right). B. Collagen gels with invaded T-VEC, isolated as a whole gel from the membrane system and fixed immediately, had long collagen fibers (dashed lines) which were aligned with the long axis of T-VEC. C. Collagen gels with embedded valve interstitial cells had random alignment and length (left), not aligned with embedded VIC (right). Green = f-actin; representative images of n=4 experiments.