Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Mesenchymal Stem Cells Revealed Similar Bone Formation to Allograft in a Sheep Model

Figure 1

Illustration of the order of intervention. T1 (week 0): aspiration of bone marrow for the cultivation of MSC. T2 (week 4): surgical femoral implant gap model. T3 (week 16): preparation of samples for mechanical testing and embedding. T4 (week 28): embedded samples ready for sectioning. T5 (week 29): sectioned samples stained for quantification.