Disrupted Endothelial Cell Layer and Exposed Extracellular Matrix Proteins Promote Capture of Late Outgrowth Endothelial Progenitor Cells

Figure 3

Representative microscopic images of VE-Cadherin expression in control HAEC (a) and HAEC incubated with anti-VE-Cadherin antibody for 1 hour at 37°C (b). Scale bar 20 μm. Effect of VE-Cadherin on dynamic interaction of LO-EPC with HAEC. 4 × 10⁵ LO-EPC were perfused (c). The data was represented as mean ± SE of three experiments. . Representative flow cytometric histograms illustrating VE-Cadherin expression in LO-EPC and HAEC (d). The lined histogram represents VE-Cadherin expression in HAEC and the filled histogram represents VE-Cadherin expression in LO-EPC.

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