Research Article

[Retracted] Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosome Repairs Endometrial Epithelial Cells Injury Induced by Hypoxia via Regulating miR-663a/CDKN2A Axis

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HucMSC-Ex promoted EECs survival under hypoxic condition. (a–d) The protein expression of epithelial marker E-cadherin, as well as hypoxia-related proteins (VEGF and avβ3), was monitored by western blot. EECs were cultured for the indicated times (1, 4, 8, 16, and 24 h) under hypoxic condition. (e) EECs were maintained under normoxic (normal group), hypoxic (hypoxia group), or hypoxic condition for 4 h followed by cocultured with PKH67-labeled hucMSC-Ex for 24 h (hypoxia+hucMSC-Ex). PKH67-labeled hucMSC-Ex within EECs were analyzed, and the scale bar represents 200 μm. (f) Cell viability of EECs was detected by Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8), and versus normal group, # and ## versus hypoxia group.
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