Fig. 5.

hBMSCs cultured on TCP-S show increased proliferation and osteogenic differentiation compared to cells on TCP-B. DNA quantification and ALP activity (normalized to DNA amount) of hBMSCs from 3 donors cultured on TCP discs over a 14-day period (A). Representative images of hBMSCs cultured for 7 days on TCP surfaces and showing more intense blue ALP staining on TCP-S (B). ^*: p < 0.05, ^**: p < 0.005, ^***: p < 0.001, TCP-S against TCP-B at correlating time point. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)