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. 2022 Jan 17;12:795. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-04856-1

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effect of MMP inhibitor and heparinase inhibitor on collagen expression in the skin equivalent model. Immunostaining of type I procollagen (A–D), type I collagen (E–H), type III collagen (I–L) and type V collagen (M–P) in the skin equivalent model in presence of MMP inhibitor CGS27023A (B, F, J, N), heparinase inhibitor BIPBIPU (C, G, K, O), or both MMP inhibitor CGS27023A and heparinase inhibitor BIPBIPU (D, H, L, P) as compared with control (A, E, I, M). Staining signal intensities of type I procollagen (Q), type I collagen (R), type III collagen (S) and type V collagen (T) were analyzed using WINROOF 2015 image-analyzing software (Mitani, Fukui, Japan, https://www.mitani-visual.jp/products/image_analys_ismeasure-ment/winroof/). Data are the means ± SD of three independent experiments. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01. White bars: 100 μm.