Research Article

Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 Enhances Expansion of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells without Diminishing Their Immunosuppressive Potential

Figure 1

Culture Expansion. Cumulative population doublings of hMSCs expanded in control conditions (black circles) or in the presence of rhFGF-2 (white circles). Mean ± standard deviation from 5 individual hMSC preparations. The slopes of the linear regression equations are an approximation to the average population doubling times.
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