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. 2014 Jul 21;9:3439–3452. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S65353

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Therapeutic effects on mouse ischemic hindlimbs.

Notes: (A) Representative photographs of hindlimbs on days 0, 14, and 28 after treatments. (B) Grading the hindlimb necrosis on day 28 after treatment. Three grades were used to measure the degree of limb necrosis: I, necrosis in the nail; II, necrosis in the toe; and III, necrosis in the distal half of the foot. (C) The blood reperfusion ratio in ischemic hindlimbs. *P<0.05 versus all other groups; #P<0.05 versus the saline group. (D) Representative immunohistochemistry photographs of sections in ischemic hindlimbs. Capillaries were marked in brown. Scale bar =25 μm. (E) Quantification of capillary density. *P<0.05 versus the saline, L64, and pSC-HIF1α groups; #P<0.05 versus the saline group (n=7). Pluronic® L64 (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA).

Abbreviations: CMV, cytomegalovirus; L64, Pluronic® L64; SC, CMV promoter/SV40 enhancer; HIF-1αtri, hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha triple mutant; SV40E, SV40 enhancer.