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. 2020 Mar 23;11(3):201. doi: 10.1038/s41419-020-2397-0

Fig. 5. Plasminogen treatment leads to decreased expression of factors that are involved in the development of fibrosis.

Fig. 5

a Expression of genes that are involved in fibrosis that were significantly changed at day 20 of plasminogen treatment when compared with PBS treatment, as measured using mRNA sequencing. Rich factor is the ratio of the number of target genes divided by the number of all the genes in each pathway. b The KEGG enrichment scatter plot of genes regulating metabolism that were significantly changed at day 20 of plasminogen treatment compared with PBS treatment, as identified by mRNA sequencing. Downregulated genes are shown in green, and pathways that include both upregulated and downregulated genes are shown in orange. c Expression of genes involved in the regulation of glycolysis that were significantly changed in plasminogen-treated wounds at day 20 when compared with PBS-treated wounds, as measured using mRNA sequencing. d A model for the molecular mechanisms by which plasminogen enhances the healing of radiation wounds.