A: Murine BSM strips devoid of urothelium and submucosa were transduced
with an adenovirus encoding GFP, and vimentin for 48 h and the expression levels
of SMA, and SM22 were determined by immunoblot analysis. GAPDH was used as a
loading control. B: Quantification of immunoblot data. C-D: Sections prepared
from murine BSM strips overexpressing vimentin and GFP proteins were stained with
anti-SMA, or anti- SM22, or anti-SMHC or Alexa Fluor 488 labelled GFP antibody,
followed by Cy3 and Cy5 conjugated secondary antibodies. Representative confocal
images are shown in C and D: Scale bars = 50 μm. E: Quantification of
confocal images data. Data are expressed as means ± SD, n = 5 mice in
each group. NS indicates non significant.