Fig. 6. Expression of factors involved in fibrosis modulation quantified by RT-qPCR. a and b. Expression of Mmp2 and Mmp9. c. Expression of TGF-β1. d. Expression of TnC. e. Expression of Nppa. b-Actin was adopted as the housekeeping gene. Results were normalised to the FBs population expression. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01. Statistics by one-way ANOVA with Tukey's post hoc test for Gaussian populations and Kruskal–Wallis test with Dunn's post hoc test for non-Gaussian populations. At least N = 4 biologically independent samples were considered per condition.
