Fig. 2

Cells observation and real-time RT-PCR analysis. a BMCs morphology in May Grünwald Giemsa staining. b MSCs morphology in phase contrast microscopy. c S-MSCs morphology in phase contrast microscopy. d mRNA expression of six genes of interest were quantified using simultaneous real-time RT-qPCR experiments in MSCs (black box, n = 7), in S-MSCs (empty box, n = 7) and cb-ECFC (grey box, n = 5) used as control. x: aberrant distribution values as indicated by Box and Whiskers plots Medcalc version 7.3 software (*p < 0.05 and ^†p < 0.01)