Paraffin-embedded tissues were cut into 5 μm sections, deparaffinized in xylene, and rehydrated in PBS. Deparaffinized sections were treated with
endogenous peroxidase-blocking reagent (DAKO Cytomation A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark) and
proteinase K (DAKO) for 6 min at room temperature. Sections were then incubated with rabbit monoclonal antibody (mAb) specific for Collagen-1 (LSL, Tokyo, Japan), Collagen-3 (LSL) or Collagen-5 (BIOSS, Woburn, MA, USA), p75NTR/CD271 (Chemicon International, Carlsbad, CA, USA), and DAPI (
VECTASHIELD H-1200; Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA) was used for nuclear staining. In some experiments, non-wounded and wounded skin sections were double-stained using a mAb specific for CD45 (Merck Millipore Corporation, Darmstadt, Germany) and rabbit mAb specific for CD271. Sections were sequentially incubated with goat anti-Rabbit IgG (H+L) or goat anti-Mouse IgG (H+L) secondary Ab,
Alexa Fluor ® 488 conjugate (Invitrogen Corp., CA, USA). Sections were washed 3 times with PBS between incubations. For the analysis of accumulation of collagen-1, -3, and -5, fluorescence intensity/100 µm 2 of dermis was measured using a NIH-image software (USA National Institutes of Health). For analysis of dermal CD271 + cells, stained cells were counted in 200 µm 2 of the wound bed per section.
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