Each section was incubated overnight at 4 °C with primary antibodies targeting Type I procollagen (ab64409, rat mAb, Abcam, Cambridge, UK, cross-reacts with human), Type I collagen (600–401-103, rabbit pAb, Rockland, Limerick, PA, cross-reacts with bovine and human), Type III collagen (ab6310, FH-7A, mouse mAb, Abcam, Cambridge, UK, cross-reacts with rat and human), Type V collagen (AM10159PU-N, V13F6, mouse mAb, Acris, San Diego, CA, cross-reacts with human), keratin-14 (20R-CP002, guinea pig pAb, Fitzgerald Industries International, Acton, MA) and PDGFRbeta (MAB1263, mouse mAb, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN). Primary antibodies were detected using Alexa488- or Alexa594-conjugated secondary antibody (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Sections were examined with an Olympus BX51 microscope (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) and images were captured with a DP72 controller digital camera (Olympus). The staining intensity in 6 randomly selected microscopic fields was quantified by using WINROOF2015 image-analyzing software (Mitani, Fukui, Japan, https://www.mitani-visual.jp/products/image_analys_ismeasurement/winroof/), as described previously10 (link).
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