Fluorescent images were captured with the Zeiss LSM 510 Meta Inverted Confocal Microscope through the Vanderbilt University Cell Imaging Shared Resource
The effects of NTZ were compared to those of the standard antioxidant, N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), as a well-documented hepatoprotective agent known to inhibit ER stress, and to those of 4-phenyl butyrate (4-PBA), a standard ER stress inhibitor (Soliman et al., 2019)
One of the problems with surgery is that when a rotator cuff tears on its own, or with minor trauma, the tissue has become very unhealthy
If the ECM is built too aggressively and haphazardly, you get a raised, thick, unappealing scar
Fjell CD, Jenssen H, Fries P, Aich P, Griebel P, Hilpert K, Hancock REW, Cherkasov A: Identification of novel host defense peptides and the absence of -defensins in the bovine genome
doi: 10.1186/s12974-021-02233-9 14 DavidsonA