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. 2024 Nov 14;14:28032. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-78092-0

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

UTI alleviated renal injury and interstitial fibrosis induced by UUO. (A) The renal injury and fibrosis were evaluated by H&E and Masson staining, respectively (Original magnification: × 400, scale: 20 μm, the black arrows indicate inflammatory cells). (B) The quantitative analysis of the area affected by renal interstitial fibrosis (**P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001). (C) The levels of Collagen I and α-SMA were detected by qPCR (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001). (D and E) The levels of Collagen I and α-SMA were detected by Western blot. Tubulin was used as the loading control (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001). (F and G) Immunohistochemical staining was performed to assess the expression of Collagen I and α-SMA at a cellular level, the positive areas were measured using Image J (Original magnification: × 400, scale: 20 μm, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001). Results were presented as mean ± SD of three individual experiments. The full-length blots/gels are presented in Supplementary Fig. 1.