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From: Antifibrotic therapies to control cardiac fibrosis

Fig. 5

Left ventricular (LV) myocardial histopathological changes on post-infarct day 42. a to d Microscopic identification of myocardial fibrosis over LV after Masson’s Trichrome staining. e Mean fibrotic area. f–i Protein expressions of fibrotic (TGF-β and Smad3) and antifibrotic (Smad1/5 and BBMP-2) biomarkers in infarct area of LV myocardium. * vs. other groups with different symbols (*, †, ‡, §), p < 0.05 for all groups. AMI: acute MI. ADMSC: adipose derived MSC. PRF: platelet-rich fibrin. (Reprinted from Sun et al. [123])

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