FIGURE 5.
Effects of Ept on hBMSCs chondrogenesis. (A,B) Representative alcian blue staining and quantitative analysis (n = 5), (C) Representative immunofluorescence images of Col I (red color), Col II (green color), Col X (red color), ACAN (green color) and SOX9 (red color), (D–H) Relative mRNA expression of Col 1a1, Col 2a1, Col 10a1, ACAN and SOX9 (n = 3), (I) Representative western blot detection of Col I, Col II, Col X, ACAN and SOX9 in hBMSCs. Mean ± SD, p * < 0.05, p ** < 0.01, p *** < 0.001.