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. 2017 Nov 14;18:449. doi: 10.1186/s12891-017-1815-7

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Flowchart of the present study. Human knee synovial tissue was obtained from five patients under arthroscopic surgery. After primary culture, several doses of Hb-treatment were administered. The culture medium was used for Western blotting and ELISA analysis for time-course and dose-dependent studies. Cells were used for real-time PCR analysis of the time-course study. The results shown are typical of several independent experiments (N = 6). Hb: hemoglobin. ELISA: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay. Real-time PCR: Real-time polymerase chain reaction