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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 14.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2019 Sep 18;5(10):5327–5336. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b00810

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

Potassium gluconate inhibits fibroblast-myofibroblast differentiation. (A-E) Representative images of fibroblasts cultured with 1 ng/mL TGFβ1 supplemented with (B) 40, (C) 60, (D) 80, and (E) 0 mM (positive control) potassium gluconate. (A) Fibroblasts were also cultured with 0 ng/mL TGFβ1 and 0 mM potassium gluconate as a negative control. Scale: 100 μm. (F) Quantification of αSMA positive area. * (p<0.05) indicates significance with all other treatment groups as determined by one-way ANOVA with Holm-Sidak post hoc analysis and † (p<0.05) indicates significance between constant and late treatment groups within the same concentration of potassium gluconate as determined by Student’s t-test (n=5 independent experiments).