Research Article

Resveratrol Synergistically Promotes BMP9-Induced Osteogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

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Resveratrol promotes the expansion of the BMP9-induced hypertrophic chondrocyte zone. (a) Micrographic fluorescent images of fetal mouse tibia from E18.5 embryos treated with Ad-GFP, Ad-GFP+resveratrol, Ad-BMP9, or Ad-BMP9+resveratrol for 14 d. . (b, c) The in vitro osteogenic induced fetal mouse tibias were fixed and stained with H&E and Masson’s trichrome staining. The boxes indicate the growth plate. (d) Analysis of the thickness of growth plates. The slides were scanned and measured the distance from the proliferation zone to the hypertrophic zone which is the growth plate, by K-Viewer software (KFBIO, China). , , and compared to the control group. #, ##, and ### compared with the BMP9 group.
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