Fig. 1. Correlation of the expression levels of NLRP3, HSP90α, and HSP90β in patients’ samples.
a Chemical structure of celastrol. b Representative IHC result of the expression levels of NLRP3, HSP90α, and HSP90β in the liver tissue from normal individuals, and HCV-HCC, HBV-HCC, and cirrhosis patients. Scale bar = 20 µm. c The expression level of each protein was scored semi-quantitatively by two researchers in blind, showing a strong correlation between NLRP3 and HSP90β in the liver tissues of normal individuals and HCC patients with HCV infection. The correlation analysis results are shown in Table 1.