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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: Front Med. 2018 Oct 30;13(2):189–201. doi: 10.1007/s11684-018-0664-6

Figure 12.

Figure 12.

Optical micrographs of the rat bone tissue regeneration responses after the 3 weeks implantation of the membranes: (A, C) pure chitosan and (B, D) the chitosan–silica xerogel hybrid. The fresh-formed bone tissue was revealed in blue, the calcified bones and materials were stained in red. Reproduced from Ref.[93]