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Table 1 Summary of Immunohistochemical Staining Results

From: Expression of proinflammatory cytokines and proinsulin by bone marrow-derived cells for fracture healing in long-term diabetic mice

proinsulin

 

localization

2 W

3 W

LT-HG

(-)

Chondrocytes

BMDCs

(+)

Chondrocytes

BMDCs

++

++

TNF-α

 

localization

2 W

3 W

LT-HG

(-)

Chondrocytes

±

±

 

BMDCs

+

+

(+)

Chondrocytes

+

+

BMDCs

++

+

  1. TNF, tumor necrosis factor; LT-HG, long term hyperglycemia; BMDCs, bone marrow derived cells; 2 W, 2weeks after fracture; 3 W, 3weeks after fracture; ++, strongly positive; +, moderately positive; ±, weakly positive; , negative staining, semi-quantitative analysis conducted according to the method described by Song J et al. and Yayama T, et al. [29, 30]