Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Pulmonary Antimicrobial Immunity and Prevent Following Bacterial Infection

Figure 1

CTX reduced cells in the lung, whereas MSCs increased them. (a) B6 mice were treated with MSCs or CTX and sacrificed at indicated time. i.p.: intraperitoneal; i.v.: intravenous. (b) Cells from the BALF and lungs were isolated and counted. (c, d) Apoptotic status of lung cells was determined by FACS. (e) Lung pathology was examined by H&E staining. (f) Quantitative analyses of the pulmonary alveolar sizes, as measured by MLI. Data were expressed as the . mice for each treatment group; ; ; . This experiment is representative of three individual experiments.

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