Figure 6.

Relative gene expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) in MSCs seeded on healthy and diseased tendon scaffolds. Asterisks indicate significant differences between groups with p < 0.05 (*) or p < 0.01 (**). Significant differences over time are indicated by paragraph symbols for healthy tendon scaffold cultures and by plus symbols for diseased tendon scaffold cultures (§ or + for p < 0.05; §§ or ++ for p < 0.01). Data were obtained using scaffolds from n = 5 different tendons per group.