Fig 6.

Apoptosis rates of human podocytes after HBV infection. Differentiated podocytes were treated as above. The apoptosis of podocytes (A, B) was evaluated by FCM. The cell viability (C) of podocytes from the indicated groups was measured by CCK-8 assay. The apoptosis of podocytes (A, B) was significantly decreased, and the cell viability (C) was significantly increased after downregulating, inhibiting, and mutating NTCP. The apoptosis of podocytes (A, B) and the cell viability (C) were reversed after upregulation of NTCP. The sum of Q2-UR and Q2-LR is the red number of apoptotic cells. Results are mean ± SD for three individual experiments. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.