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From: Comprehensive analysis of skeletal muscle- and bone-derived mesenchymal stem/stromal cells in patients with osteoarthritis and femoral neck fracture

Fig. 3

Colony-forming unit fibroblast assay. Cells were plated to perform the colony-forming unit fibroblast assay (CFU-F) at p0 (a) and at p1 (b). Muscle-derived cells plated at p0 from OA and OP patients showed a significantly higher proportion of cells forming colonies than those from controls (0.0886 and 0.0985% vs. 0.0383%, p = 0.004, 0.002, respectively) (a). CFU-F assays at p1 did not show any significant differences between the donor groups p1 (b). No significant differences were found for bone-derived MSCs (a, b). Representative images of wells of methyl violet-stained colonies formed after p0 and p1 for muscle-derived cells from OA and OP patients and controls (c)

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