Figure 7

Measurement of the expression of selected genes among 6 ERC-B, 6 ERC-E, 3 HSC (CD34), 3 ESC, and 3 fibroblast samples using q RT-PCR. The expression levels of TNFSF4, MMP3, IL-8 and ICAM-1 were up-regulated in ERC compared to BMSC and the expression of VCAM-1, PTGS2 and ITGA-10 were down-regulated in ERC. The fold change values shown were normalized against BMSC and calculated as the –log₂fold-change (−log₂FC).