Figure 7.
Woven fabrics promoted HADMSC differentiation towards tenocytes in TDM after 14-day culture. (A) Immunofluorescent staining for TNMD (green), COL1 (red), and nuclei (blue) on the three different nanofibrous scaffolds. Scale bars = 50 μm. (B) qPCR analysis of SCX, TNC, COL1, COL3, and TNMD genes on HADMSC-seeded electrospun random and aligned meshes and woven fabrics. Relative gene expression is presented as normalized to 18S and expressed relative to HADMSC-seeded random fibrous scaffolds (n=3; bars that do not share letters are significantly different from each other, p<0.05).