Fig. 4.
Effects of Sim treatment on the EMT in silica-induced rats. (A) The western blotting bands of E-cad, Vimentin, α-SMA, TGF-β1 and GAPDH in lung tissues among different groups (n = 3). The samples were derived from the same experiment, and the gels/blots were processed in parallel. The gels/blots are corpped, and full-length gels/blots are presented in Fig. S1. The relative expressions of E-cad (B), Vimentin (C), α-SMA (D), and TGF-β1 (E). Data are presented as the means ± SD, n = 3. **p < 0.01 vs. the control group; #p < 0.05, ##p < 0.01 vs. the silica group
