Nucleus Pulposus Cell Conditioned Medium Promotes Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation into Nucleus Pulposus-Like Cells under Hypoxic Conditions

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(a) Relative protein expression by western blotting in NPCs cultured under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. Protein expression levels for each sample were normalized against the housekeeping gene β-actin. (b) Collagen II, (c) Glut-1, (d) CD24, (e) carbonic anhydrase 12, (f) brachyury, (g) aggrecan, (h) HIF-1α, (i) HIF-2α, (j) carbonic anhydrase 3, (k) KRT8, (l) KRT18, (m) KRT19, and (n) Shh. , , , and .

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