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. 2023 Dec 27;13:22974. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-49751-5

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Effects of fucoxanthin on the expression of PI3K/Akt/Nrf-2 in H2O2-treated PL-MSCs. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR showed the expression of PI3K (a), Akt (b), and Nrf-2 (c) in PL-MSCs after 48 h of co-treatment with 750 μM H2O2 and fucoxanthin. (d) Western blot analysis showed the expression of PI3K/Akt/Nrf-2. The blotted membranes were cropped before hybridization with primary antibodies. The original blots of (d) are shown in Supplementary Fig. 4–6. (e)–(g) Relative protein expression level of p-PI3K/PI3K, p-Akt/Akt, and Nrf-2 in PL-MSCs after 48 h of co-treatment with 750 μM H2O2 and fucoxanthin. Data are presented as mean ± SEM, n = 3. Statistical significance was tested using the pair T-test. #p ≤ 0.001 vs. PL-MSCs cultured in the completed DMEM medium. *p ≤ 0.05 vs. H2O2-treated PL-MSCs without fucoxanthin. $p ≤ 0.05 vs. PL-MSCs cultured in the completed DMEM medium.