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. 2020 Apr 23;40(6):1559–1573. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.314297

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Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited, the use is noncommercial, and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Figure 3. — Inflammatory monocyte/macrophage invasion and MMP (matrix metalloprotease)-9 activity were enhanced in EP4 (prostaglandin E receptor 4)-Tg aorta at initial stage of abdominal aortic aneurysm formation. A, Representative fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) plots of cell suspensions obtained from the abdominal aorta before and after Ang II (angiotensin II) infusion. B, Percentage of each cell fraction from FACS analysis. n=9. C and D, Representative image of gelatin zymography of cell suspensions obtained from the abdominal aorta for nontransgenic (non-Tg; N) and EP4-Tg (E) before and after Ang II infusion. Protein expression of pro-MMP-9 and activity of MMP from gelatin zymography. P: recombinant MMP-9 as a positive control. n=6 to 7. E, Semiquantitative polymerase chain reaction of cell fraction from FACS analysis. CD indicates cluster of differentiation; FSC, forward scatter; and NS, not significant. *P<0.05, **P<0.01.