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. 2003 Mar 18;88(6):902–909. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600830

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Zinc protoporphyrin IX-induced apoptosis of AH136B cells in vitro. AH136B cells were incubated for 24 h with indicated concentrations of ZnPP IX, with or without caspase-3 inhibitor (A) or SnPP IX (B), or with 100 μM CuPP IX. (A, B) TUNEL-positive cells were counted in four different fields of magnification at × 100 per sample, and then the percentage of positive cells was calculated. **P<0.05 vs control (n=3 for each group). Cell viability after the same treatment is shown in the inset. **P< 0.05, **P<0.01 vs control (n=4 for each group). Data are means±s.e. (C) Representative TUNEL staining of control and ZnPP IX-treated tumour cells. See text for details.