Figure 7
Myofibroblasts and apoptosis of fibroblasts embedded in attached collagen I gels. Summary of all results for fibroblasts grown up to confluence, embedded in collagen gels and harvested after three days. Analysis was as described in Fig. 4 and 5. A/α-SMA. The data for the keloid and palmar cultures are average from three experiments with two keloid-palmar pairs and three experiments with a nonlantar-plantar pair; B/Apoptosis. Results are averages of three experiments. The average for the keloid cultures are plotted separately. For palmar cultures the average is over experiments and over cultures from two different individuals.