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. 2017 Oct 16;7:13297. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-13567-x

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Quantification of caspase 3/7 activity in BMSC. (a) Caspase 3/7 activity of BMSC in monolayer cultured in chondrogenic medium conditioned with OA cartilage (CM) relative to non-conditioned medium (NM, line at 100%, n = 8). (b) Caspase 3/7 activity of BMSC in monolayer transfected with miR-29b mimic relative to BMSC transfected with a non-targeting control miR (NT-miR, line at 100%, n = 8). (c) Caspase 3/7 activity of BMSC in monolayer transfected with miR-29b inhibitor and subsequently cultured in CM relative to BMSC transfected with NT-miR and cultured in CM (NT-miR + CM, line at 100%, n = 10). Results are expressed as box plots with median, the 25th and 75th percentiles and whiskers showing the largest and smallest values. * = p < 0.05; ** = p < 0.01; non-parametric Wilcoxon signed rank test for paired analysis. CM: with OA cartilage conditioned medium; NM: non-conditioned medium; mimic: miR-29b mimic; NT-miR: non-targeting control miR; inhibitor + CM: with miR-29b inhibitor transfected BMSC cultured in medium conditioned with OA cartilage; NT-miR + CM: with non-targeting control miR transfected BMSC cultured in medium conditioned with OA cartilage.