Research Article

Neural Peptide α-CGRP Coregulated Angiogenesis and Osteogenesis via Promoting the Cross-Talk between Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Endothelial Cells

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CGRP enhances proangiogenic features of MSCs and indirectly contributes to increased angiogenesis effects of HUVECs. (a) RT-qPCR measurement of proangiogenic gene expression levels in MSCs (). (b) Representative images of tube formation by HUVECs cultured in MSC-derived conditioned medium (CM) and (d) its quantitative measurement accordingly (). (c) Representative images of transmembrane migrated HUVECs cocultured with MSCs and (e) its quantitative measurement accordingly (); , , , as compared with control and CGRP-BIBN groups.
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