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Fig. 4

From: Acute mechanical stress in primary porcine RPE cells induces angiogenic factor expression and in vitro angiogenesis

Fig. 4

In vitro angiogenesis results. Mechanical stress increased the endothelial tube formation response of HUVECs to used media from RPE cultures. The length of the endothelial tubes and the number of nodes increased when HUVECs were exposed to conditioned apical (a, d) and basal (b, e) media from mechanically stressed RPE cultures for 6 h (f, g). HUVECs incubated with fresh medium resulted in smaller endothelial tubes and fewer nodes compared to those grown with media from both unstressed and mechanically stressed RPE cultures (c, f, g). * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; Control groups were compared to all treatment groups. Error bars represent one standard deviation

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Journal of Biological Engineering

ISSN: 1754-1611