Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 7 pp 6306—6323

Figure 2. The astroglial mesenchymal phenotype switching of astrocytes in ICH. (A) Immunofluorescence staining for VIM (purple) and GFAP (green) in ICH mouse brain at 3d post-PBS transplantation. Bar = 100μm. GFAP and VIM were expressed in reactive astrocytes around the lesion area. (B) Immunofluorescence staining for VIM (purple) and GFAP (green) in the ICH mouse brain at 3d post-BM-MSCs transplantation. Bar = 100μm. After the transplantation of BM-MSCs, VIM was strongly expressed, whereas GFAP remained at the same level. (C) The results of relative fluorescence intensity of GFAP and VIM, plotting into a histogram of five randomly fields. (D–I) Western blotting analysis of GFAP, VIM, ALDH1L1, EAAT1, p-MST1, MST1, p-YAP and YAP expression in the ICH mouse brain of Sham, PBS, and BM-MSCs treatment at 3d. Expressions were normalized against the internal reference GAPDH. The fold change values were calculated by normalizing to the sham group. The results were plotted as mean ± SD (n = 6). *p < 0.05, compared with sham group.