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Andrew T. Jacovina, Arunkumar B. Deora, Qi Ling, M. Johan Broekman, Dena Almeida, Caroline B. Greenberg, Aaron J. Marcus, Jonathan D. Smith, Katherine A. Hajjar
Published in Volume 119, Issue 11
J Clin Invest. 2009; 119(11):3384–3394 doi:10.1172/JCI39591
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Effect of HC on endothelial cell invasion of Matrigel implants.

(A) Left: Sections from Matrigel implants containing VEGF-A (100 ng/ml) harvested from mice on Gly and Met diets. Arrows indicate erythrocyte-containing neovessels. Right: Matrigel plug cellularity, assessed as described in Methods. Shown are mean ± SEM for 8 separate plugs, 10 fields per plug. Scale bars: 20 μm. (B) Left: Sections from Matrigel implants containing 75 ng/ml bFGF, 100 μg/ml heparin, and the indicated concentrations of DL-HC, harvested from mice maintained on a normal chow diet. Right: Matrigel plug cellularity. Shown are mean ± SEM for 3 separate plugs, 10 fields per plug. Scale bars: 50 μm. (C) Left: Sections from Matrigel implants containing 75 ng/ml bFGF and 100 μg/ml heparin with or without 100 μM DL-HC, L-cysteine, or L-methionine, harvested from mice on a normal chow diet. Right: Matrigel plug cellularity. Shown are mean ± SEM for 3 separate plugs, 10 fields per plug. Scale bars: 50 μm. All sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin. *P < 0.01 versus control.