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. 2019 Oct 11;13:1092. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.01092

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Cytological analysis of magnetically labeled haNSCs (n = 3 with 3 technical replicates each). (a) Unlabeled control cells and (b) intracytoplasmic VSOP uptake by haNSCs following incubation with 0.5 mM VSOP. (c–f) Cells were fixed with 4% phosphate-buffered saline-buffered paraformaldehyde and intracellular iron was visualized using Prussian blue staining on day 2 as shown in (c,e) and on day 28 as provided in (d,f) after labeling. (g) Cell counting revealed that labeling efficacy at any time point could not be enhanced significantly by lipofection. (h) Proliferation analysis of VSOP-labeled haNSC (1.5 mM) revealed no statistically significant difference in the proliferation abilities of unlabeled haNSC and haNSCs labeled with 0.5 mM VSOP, respectively. Scale bars in (a–f) represent 10 μm. p < 0.01.