Cardiomyocyte Formation by Skeletal Muscle-Derived Multi-Myogenic Stem Cells after Transplantation into Infarcted Myocardium
Figure 3
Expression of skeletal muscle (red), ion channel (green), smooth muscle (purple), vascular-related (light-blue), cardiac muscle (black) and cell proliferation (orange) markers before and after cell division of single Sk-34 cells.
Cells were cultured clonally in collagen gels. Bar chart shows percentage of samples expressing target mRNA and total numbers are given in parentheses. Percentage of skeletal and smooth muscle, and two ion channel marker-expressing cells gradually increased following cellular divisions. However, cardiac and vascular-related makers did not change during clonal cell culture. M-cad, M-cadherin; Scn1b, sodium channel voltage gated type1-b; Cacnb1, calcium channel voltage-dependent beta-1 subunit; α-SMA, α-smooth muscle actin; TEK, tyrosine kinase-endothelial.