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

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Expression of genes related to apoptosis in BMSC. (a) miR-29b (white bar), BCL2 (light grey bar) and MCL1 (dark grey bar) gene expression of BMSC kept in micromass pellets and cultured for 7 days in chondrogenic medium conditioned with OA cartilage (CM) compared to non-conditioned chondrogenic medium (NM, zero line, n = 7). (b) miR-29b (white bar), BCL2 (light grey bar) and MCL1 (dark grey bar) gene expression of BMSC in monolayer transfected with miR-29b mimic compared to BMSC transfected with a non-targeting control miR (NT-miR, zero line, n = 6). (c) miR-29b (white bar), BCL2 (light grey bar) and MCL1 (dark grey bar) gene expression of BMSC transfected in monolayer with miR-29b inhibitor and subsequently kept in micromass pellets and cultured for 7 days in CM compared to BMSC transfected with NT-miR and cultured in CM (NT-miR + CM, zero line, n = 8). 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.