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. 2018 Apr 18;2018:5736535. doi: 10.1155/2018/5736535

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Zinc induces neuronal gene expression in differentiated AD-MSCs. Effects of zinc on the expression of NES and MAP2 during neuronal differentiation in AD-MSCs. (a, b) To investigate whether zinc played a role in the expression of the surface protein molecules CD90 and CD105, flow cytometry was performed in differentiated AD-MSCs. AD-MSCs were incubated in differentiation medium with the presence of either 10 μM ZnCl2 or CaEDTA for 3 days. Analysis of the expression of CD90 and CD105 was determined by WinMDI software. (c, d) mRNA expression of NES and MAP2 was measured by real-time quantitative RT-PCR. These data represent the mean ± SD from three independent experiments (p < 0.05 versus untreated with ZnCl2; #p < 0.05 versus treated with ZnCl2).