Research Article

Bone Marrow Culture-Derived Conditioned Medium Recovers Endothelial Function of Vascular Grafts following In Vitro Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Diabetic Rats

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Effect of ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury on DNA strand breaks in nondiabetic control and diabetic rats. (a) Representative merged micrographs of aortic tissue shows pink nuclei with fragmented DNA, visualized by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) staining and blue nuclei represents 4,6-diamino-2-phenylindole staining (×40 magnification; scale bar: 100 μm) followed by (b) quantification of TUNEL-positive cells. DM indicates diabetes mellitus. The evaluation was conducted by two examiners blinded to the experimental groups from 4 randomized nonoverlapping fields per aorta per rat. Data are represented as the . versus control, # versus control-IR, $ versus DM. Control, ratscontrol control-IR, ratscontrol DM, ratscontrol DM-IR, rats.
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