Electroacupuncture at ST36 Increases Bone Marrow-Derived Interstitial Cells of Cajal via the SDF-1/CXCR4 and mSCF/Kit-ETV1 Pathways in the Stomach of Diabetic Mice

Figure 1

The percentage of GFP⁺ cells in a chimeric mouse (a), a GFP-transgenic mouse (b), and a wild-type C57BL/6 mouse (c) determined by flow cytometry. The following gating strategy was applied to determine the proportion of GFP⁺ cells among mononuclear cells: P1, active cells and Q1, GFP⁺cells. SSC, side scatter; FSC, forward scatter. The percentage of GFP⁺ cells was 90.8% in the chimeric mouse, 99% in the positive control GFP-transgenic mouse, and 0.1% in the negative control wild-type C57BL/6 mouse. The bone marrow cells of the recipient mice were almost completely replaced by GFP⁺ BMDCs from the donor mice.

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