Additional file 3: Figure S3. of Inhibition of Oct 3/4 mitigates the cardiac progenitor-derived myocardial repair in infarcted myocardium

Showing immunostaining signals for CD31 and α-SMA from sham and MI myocardium. Hearts from sham and MI + PBS groups were stained with CD31 (red) and GFP (green) to determine the development of c-kit+ CSC-derived capillaries. c-kit+ CSC-derived vascular smooth muscle cells were stained with α-SMA (green) and GFP (red). (Positive staining of c-kit+ CSCs from other groups are presented in Fig. 4a, b) Scale bar: 100 μm. The detailed procedure is described in Materials and Methods. (TIF 295 kb)