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. 2023 Jul 17;21:475. doi: 10.1186/s12967-023-04303-3

Fig. 5 .

Fig. 5 

TGF-β1 promotes fibroblast-mediated EMT in BLCA cells by upregulating FAP. A, D A wound healing assay demonstrates that OEFAP-HFF-CM enhances the migration of T24 cells. B, E A wound healing assay shows that HFF-CM promotes T24 cell migration, and TGF-β1-induced HFF-CM amplifies the pro-migration effects, while TGF-β1 neutralizing antibody reverses this amplified pro-migration effect. C, F A transwell assay demonstrates that HFF-CM promotes T24 cell invasion, and TGF-β1-induced HFF-CM enhances the pro-invasion effects, while TGF-β1 neutralizing antibody reverses this enhanced pro-invasion effects. G, H WB and (I) qRT-PCR show that HFF-CM (stimulated or not stimulated) has a pro-EMT effect, with downregulated E-cadherin and upregulated N-cadherin and Vimentin. The pro-EMT effects of HFF-CM were significantly amplified after TGF-β1 induction or overexpression FAP, while the TGF-β1 neutralizing antibody reverses the pro-EMT effects of TGF-β1 induction