Figure 3. Cytokine arrays were used to determine the changes in relative levels of 79 different cytokines secreted with myofibroblast activation by stiffness, TGFβ1 (transforming growth factor β 1), or both, in conditioned medium (CM).

A, Schematic representation of CM collection. B, Heat map showing changes in relative levels of 79 different cytokines using unit variance scaling (created using Clustervis, average values N=2 isolations [4 rats pooled for each isolation]).