Origin of Serum Affects Quality of Engineered Tissues Produced by the Self-Assembly Approach

Figure 2

FCS and NCS provided similar stromal thickness whereas BGS resulted in thinner tissues. (a) Masson’s trichrome staining of tissues produced using human Fb and UC. Scale bar = 50 μm. (b) Stromal thickness measurement using ImageJ software ( tissues, measurements). Red lines represent the average value of stromal thickness measured from tissues reconstructed using fetal (left, FCS) or postnatal (right, NCS and BGS) sera. No statistical difference was found.

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