Fig. 5. Effect of the expression of TAp73 or
Np73
transgenes on OPC differentiation. Purified P7 rat OPCs were cultured and
analysed as in Fig. 3, except
that they were infected with either pBird, pBird-TAp73 or pBird-
Np73
vectors. The differences between the pBird and the pBird-TAp73 results in
PDGF, PDGF+TH and PDGF+RA are statistically significant when analysed by
Student's t-test (p=0.03, 0.03 and 0.02, respectively). The
differences between the pBird and the pBird-
Np73 results in PDGF,
PDGF+TH, PDGF+RA and without PDGF are also statistically significant
(p=0.04, 0.004, 0.03 and 0.001, respectively).