Fig. 6.

Human ECFC-CM reduces adhesion molecular expression following recovery from I/R injury. Rats subjected to sham surgery or renal I/R and recovery for 5 h. Rats were treated with vehicle or ECFC-CM as labeled. A: mRNA expression levels for ICAM-1 derived from total RNA of whole kidney using real-time PCR. B and C: representative images of kidney ICAM-1 immunofluorescence in sham, vehicle-, and ECFC-CM-treated rats. C: quantitative analysis of % total area of ICAM-1 immunofluorescent-stained structures. Immunofluorescence data in C are % of total area compared with the mean value of sham-operated control rats. *P < 0.05 sham vs. I/R+vehicle by Student’s t-test. #P < 0.05 in I/R+vehicle- vs. I/R+ECFC-CM-treated rats.