Different Effects of Implanting Sensory Nerve or Blood Vessel on the Vascularization, Neurotization, and Osteogenesis of Tissue-Engineered Bone In Vivo

Figure 5

Staining of CGRP in three groups at 4, 8, and 12 weeks after surgery (black arrows). CGRP staining showed that there was more intensive staining in groups SN and VB than in group Blank at different times and was mainly around the periphery of newly generated bone tissues (×400, scale bar represents 100 μm).

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