Figure 8.
Confocal images of immunostaining of collateral dependent zone (CZ) of GFP+CD34+ BMT recipient rat heart after 10 days’ repetitive ischemia (RI). (a) GFP+CD34+ BMSCs colocalized with endothelial cell (EC) marker isolectin-B4 (as shown by arrows), indicating that GFP+CD34+ BMSCs differentiated into EC during coronary collateral growth (CCG) induced by RI. (b,c) GFP+CD34+ BMSCs colocalized with EdU (as shown by arrows), suggesting that GFP+CD34+ BMSCs proliferated during CCG. The scale bar equals 10 μm.
