MRI-Based Assessment of Intralesional Delivery of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Model of Equine Tendonitis

Figure 8

MRI of iatrogenic, SDFT lesions before (a, b, e, f) and after (c, d, g, h) injection of SPIO-treated cells. Solid arrowheads delineate the tendon lesion in preinjection images. Open arrowheads indicate SPIO-treated cells within the tendon lesion after injection. The SPIO-treated cells are seen as small, heterogeneous clusters of dark signal. The open, horizontal arrows indicate SPIO-treated cells distributed throughout the tissue layers surrounding the tendon.

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