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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 24.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Healthc Mater. 2017 May 17;6(16):10.1002/adhm.201700383. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201700383

Figure 4.

Figure 4

HUVECs exposed to different levels of shear stress. A) HUVECs were sheared under low and high shear stress for 24 h with peptide–FPs circulating in the culture media. B) HUVECs at low shear (1.5 dynes cm−2) exhibited the characteristic cobblestone morphology, C) while HUVECs exposed to high shear (15 dynes cm−2) showed elongated cell shapes aligned with the direction of flow. Cells were stained for nuclei (DAPI; white) and junctional proteins as an indication of cell monolayer confluency (VE-cadherin; green), which localized to cell borders. The arrow indicates the direction of laminar flow applied to the cells.