Human Recombinant Peptide Sponge Enables Novel, Less Invasive Cell Therapy for Ischemic Stroke

Figure 1

Analysis of RCP sponges with cultured BMSCs. Panel (a) shows a fluorescence photomicrograph of cultured rat GFP-BMSCs. Panels (b) and (c) show photomicrographs of the RCP sponge before cell culture (b) and 14 days after the second cell passage (c). Panel (d) shows a photomicrograph of BMSCs on the RCP sponge, using scanning electron microscopy. Panel (e) shows the line graph of the cell viability in RCP sponge. The arrow in (d) indicates a surviving BMSC on the RCP sponge. Scale bars: 500 μm (c) and 20 μm (d).

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