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Journal of Dental Research
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Figure 1. Fibrillin-1, fibrillin-2, and tropoelastin mRNA expression in human gingival fibroblasts (HGF) and human periodontal ligament fibroblasts (HPLF). (A) Northern blot analysis. HGF and HPLF were harvested at the time-points indicated. Total cell RNA was extracted, and 1 µg was analyzed by Northern blotting analysis as described in MATERIALS & METHODS. (B) Densitometric analysis of the time-course of changes in the levels of expression of fibrillin-1, fibrillin-2, and tropoelastin mRNA, measured as shown in (A). All mRNA expression levels were analyzed with the use of National Institutes of Health imaging software and were normalized relative to β-actin mRNA expression. The levels of expression in the HGF two-week culture samples were arbitrarily assigned the value of 1. The results represent the means + SD (standard deviation) of three independent experimental determinations.

J DENT RES, Vol. 81, No. 11, 771-775 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/154405910208101110





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