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Figure 7 | Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Figure 7

From: The term basal plate of the human placenta as a source of functional extravillous trophoblast cells

Figure 7

Term EVT cells maintain their capacity to invade. TGF-β and EGF modulate the invasion of basal plate EVT maintained in (A) Matrigel or (B) fibronectin coated transwell inserts and cultured for 48 h. *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001 versus control. (C) MMP-2 and MMP-9 activities in the presence of TGF-β and EGF in basal plate EVT cultured for 48 h on Matrigel. (D) Results of densitometric analysis of gel electrophoresis expressed as fold change in relation to control cultures. In panels A, B and D the data represent the means±SEM of three independent experiments.

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