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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2014 Oct 23;8(1):167–174. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.114.001711

Figure 5. Angiogenesis and vasculogenesis at 3 months after myocardial infarction.

Figure 5

A. Increased numbers of vasculatures co-stained with α-SMA and CD31 were found after Ad.SCF injection compared to the Ad.β-gal. Blue; DAPI-stained nuclei, red; α-SMA, green; CD31. B. Presumably functional vessel stained with α-SMA. Multiple layers of nuclei are found in the vessel wall suggesting that this is a functional arteriole. C. A significant increase in capillaries co-expressing isolectin IB4 (brown) was found at the infarct border after SCF gene transfer. D. Quantification of vessels (P=0.01) and capillaries (P=0.003) suggests angiogenic role of SCF.

*; P<0.05 Abbreviations: α-SMA = α-smooth muscle actin, SCF = stem cell factor