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

Figure 4

Use of postnatal sera failed to adequately differentiate the uroepithelium. (a) Epithelial thickness measurement using ImageJ software ( tissues, measurements). Blue lines represent the average value of uroepithelial thickness measured from tissues reconstructed using fetal (left, FCS) or postnatal (right, NCS and BGS) sera. Asterisk is for . (b) From Figures 2(b) and 4(a), total thickness of tissue was determined. Part of stroma is in black bars and part of epithelium is in hatched bars. (c) Coefficients of variation of the stromal (black bars) and epithelial (hatched bars) thickness measurements. Blue lines represent the average value of the coefficient of variation of the uroepithelial thickness from tissues reconstructed using fetal (left, FCS) or postnatal (right, NCS and BGS) sera. Red lines are the same for coefficient of variation of stromal thickness. Asterisk is for .

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