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. 2014 Jul 21;24(1):104–114. doi: 10.1089/scd.2014.0160

FIG. 4.

FIG. 4.

Mean telomere length at different passages for three LL-CBMSCs and three SL-CBMSCs with related SEM values (black bars) is shown in (A). In the box, representative passage 1 LL-CBMSCs and SL-CBMSCs show dramatic differences in telomere length (standard deviation represented with black bars). Differentiation properties of a representative CBMSC population are shown in (B, C). Oil Red O solution stains lipid vacuoles of mature adipocytes (B); Alizarin Red S stains calcium deposits produced by CBMSC-derived osteocytes (C). Molecular data confirmed the differentiation of induced compared with noninduced CBMSCs: increased expression of CFD (78-folds) and PPARgamma (26-folds) (house-keeping genes: TBP and YHWAZ) for adipogenesis (B), whereas high expression levels of ALP (216-folds) and OPN (32-folds) genes (house-keeping genes: RPLP0 and RPL13alpha) assessed osteogenic differentiation (C). Standard deviation represented with black bars when visible. **P≤0.01.