JCS -- Marchetti et al. 115 (10): 2075 Figure IG6

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Fig. 6. The puromycin-selected population contains smooth muscle cells. (A) TGF-ß1 and laminin-1 increase the number of ${alpha}$ -SMA⁺ cells. Puromycin-selected cells were cultured on either gelatin or laminin-1, in the presence of 10 ng/ml rVEGF or 5 ng/ml TGF-ß1, and stained for ${alpha}$ -smooth muscle actin (FITC, actin filaments in green) and CD31 (red). The diffuse green staining reveals the expression of EGFP in CD31⁺ cells that do not contain ${alpha}$ -SMA. Bar, 50 µM. (B) CD31/ ${alpha}$ -SMA double staining. While some cells only expressed ${alpha}$ -SMA (arrows), others expressed both ${alpha}$ -SMA and CD31 (arrowheads). Bar, 30 µM.