Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells Alleviate Cold Allodynia in a Rat Spinal Nerve Ligation Model of Neuropathic Pain

Figure 1

The characterization of rat ASCs. Representative image of rat ASC cultures at passage four, exhibiting a spindle-shaped, fibroblastic morphology. Magnification, ×200. (a) Flow cytometry analysis of cultured ASCs at passage four. Note that 80% of the cultured ASCs were positive for CD105 and CD44, except CD54, and only 1.87% of the cells were positive for CD45. (b) Isotype-matched FITC-conjugated antibody was used as the negative control for flow cytometry. ASC: adipose tissue-derived stem cell; FITC: fluorescein isothiocyanate.

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