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. 2017 Aug 31;7:10113. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-10708-0

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Early-passage MSCs increase in survival compared with late-passage MSCs on chitosan film. MSCs of early and late passages were seeded in dishes coated with chitosan, followed by calculation of cell numbers (a), Live/Dead staining (48 hr; Scale bar = 50 μM) (b), TUNEL assay (Scale bar = 10 μM) (c), and Annexin V/PI assay (d) at indicated time points. (e) Whole-cell lysates at 48 hr were analyzed by western blotting with specific antibodies against c-caspase-9 and c-caspase 3. β-tubulin was used as a loading control. The results are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation of three independent experiments, which is representative of MSCs from two individuals. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.005 compared with monolayer cells.