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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Mol Bioeng. 2014 Jul 6;7(3):446–459. doi: 10.1007/s12195-014-0344-9

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3.

Calibration curves for reaction to growth factors and stiffness. (a–c) Concentration dependent changes to p38 and ERK activation and αSMA expression in response to TGF-β1 and FGF. (d) Sensitivity to stiffness in production of αSMA in MEF+/+ and FAK−/− cells. * indicates significant difference from the no treatment/TCP condition within each cell type. ^ indicates significant difference from MEF+/+ sample within substrate. Active p38 and pERK data from densitometry of western blots (a, b) and αSMA determined from indirect ELISA (c, d). Average results are presented (n = 4–12). These data were used to refine model parameters.