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

Figure 6

Postnatal sera supplementation resulted in thinner reconstructed rabbit stroma with higher variability than fetal sera use. (a) Hematoxylin and Eosin staining of tissues produced using human Fb. Scale bar = 25 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. (c) Coefficients of variation of the stromal thickness measurements. Red lines represent the average value of the coefficient of variation of the stromal thickness from tissues reconstructed using fetal (left, FCS) or postnatal (right, NCS and BGS) sera. Asterisk is for .

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