Figure 5.
Timeline of periostin expression after MI in freshly isolated cardiac fibroblasts of BALB/c mice, measured by flow cytometry. Cells were extracted from BALB/c female mice. (A–E) Periostin cellular expression and MEFSK4 cellular expression were measured at each of the selected time points after the infarction. Gating thresholds were determined by isotype controls (dashed lines). Periostin expression is shown by itself and in conjunction with the surface marker MEFSK4. (F–H) Panels show post-MI timelines for cellular expression of periostin, MEFSK4 and their coupled expression, respectively. Protein expression values displayed as % of maximal expression. Data are expressed as the means ± SD (n = 3) **p < 0.01,***p < 0.005, (Kruskal–Wallis’s multiple comparisons test, one-way ANOVA).