Acute In Vivo Response to an Alternative Implant for Urogynecology
Figure 5
Semiquantitative analyses of the host response against the implanted samples. Assessment of the extent of immunohistochemistry using a blind scoring for the expression of CD68 and PECAM-1 from sections of abdominal wall of female Sprague-Dawley rat after 3 and 7 days of implantation of PLA scaffold on top, previously cultured with and without (control) rat or human ADSCs in DMEM medium for 2 weeks. Results shown as mean ± SEM (). Scale: 0 = absent, 1 = mild presence, 2 = large presence, 3 = abundance, and 4 = great abundance.
