Hypoxia Enhances Fusion of Oral Squamous Carcinoma Cells and Epithelial Cells Partly via the Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition of Epithelial Cells

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(a)(i)-(ii) Representative images of cell fusion (RFP-CAL-27 × GFP-HIOEC) between control group and hypoxia (+) group of days 1 and 3. (b) Number of fused cells of RFP-CAL-27 × GFP-HIOECs and GFP-CAL-27 × RFP-HIOECs cocultured system by artificial counting method. . (c) Number of fused cells in RFP-CAL-27 × GFP-HIOECs cocultured system by artificial counting method. . (d) Fusion rates of RFP-CAL-27 × GFP-HIOECs by FACS. (e) Statistical analysis of fusion rate of RFP-CAL-27 × GFP-HIOECs. .

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