Fig. 7: Immunohistochemical evaluations of angiogenesis.

a Histological studies of tissues 2 days after implantation of the Org- and C12-MP3 hydrogels. The red arrows indicate blood vessels from CD31 staining. * and dashed lines in the MPO staining indicate MP hydrogels and the boundaries of the MP hydrogels and tissues. Active areas of NF-kB, CD31, and MPO were quantified using ImageJ and are shown in (b)–(d), respectively. #p > 0.05, **p < 0.01.