Repair of Abdominal Wall Defects with Biodegradable Laminar Prostheses: Polymeric or Biological?
Figure 5
Immunodetection of neoformed collagen I and III in Bio-A®.
Mature Collagen I (A–H) and immature Collagen III (I–P) immunofluorescence at 14, 30, 90 and 180 days post-implantation. The neoformed collagen appears in red and the cell nuclei (stained with DAPI) appear in blue. The DIC images that identify the biomaterial appear translucent (E–H and M–P). Confocal light microscopy (200×). (* Synthetic mesh).