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. 2017 Dec 15;2:32. doi: 10.1038/s41536-017-0037-9

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Jag1 regenerates critical-sized calvarial defects in rats. Jag1 drives pronounced bone healing in rat segmental skull defects, as seen via µCT (a). Representative dorsal 3D reconstructions are shown with 2D transverse sections (red lines) below. Jag1-induced healing occurs within the plane of surrounding bone (arrow), while BMP2 causes bone overgrowth above the injury margin: termed hypertrophy (arrow). Expression of the canonical Notch target gene, HES1, is increased in a frontal quadrant of rat calveriae relative to GAPDH in the Jag1-treated animals preceding this bone formation in the rostral portion of the healing defect (b). Associated quantitation represents bone within 6.6 × 6.6 mm ROIs centered in each defect. Scale bars are equal to 5 mm. Statistical significance is symbolized with * for p < 0.05 (n = 4–6)