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. 2015 Dec;10(12):2040–2047. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.172324

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Effect of the transplantation of hTERT-transfected Schwann cells at the site of injury on mRNA expression of AQP4/9 and MMP9/2.

AQP4/9 and MMP9/2 mRNA expression was lower in the SCs group compared with the SCI group. AQP4/9 and MMP9/2 mRNA expression (/GAPDH optical density) is the lowest in the hTERT-transfected group followed by the SCs group, and the highest in the SCI group (n = 6; one-way analysis of variance followed by the least significant difference test; P < 0.05). AQP: Aquaporin; GAPDH: glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase; hTERT: human telomerase reverse transcriptase; MMP: matrix metalloproteinases; SCI: spinal cord injury; SCs group: Schwann cells without hTERT transfection group.