Pretreatment of Adipose Derived Stem Cells with Curcumin Facilitates Myocardial Recovery via Antiapoptosis and Angiogenesis

Figure 6

Assessment of vessel density at the border zone of MI and VEGF level in ischemic myocardium. (a) Representative anti-vWF antibody staining images by immunohistochemistry and quantitative analysis revealed microvessel density was the highest in the Cur-ADSCs group (). (b) Representative Western blots of VEGF expression level and quantitative analysis showed curcumin pretreatment significantly VEGF level in ischemic myocardium. β-actin is used as internal parameter. Scale bars = 100 μm. Statistical differences () are indicated from PBS () and ADSCs (#).

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