Figure 5. Inhibition of Nanog, Sox-2, cMyc, Oct-4 and ABCG2 in human pancreatic CSCs by resveratrol.
(A), Pancreatic CSCs were treated with resveratrol (0–20 µM) for 24 h. The expression of Nanog, Sox-2 and cMyc was measured by qRT-PCR. Data represent mean ± SD. * and @ = significantly different from control, P<0.05. (B), Pancreatic CSCs were treated with resveratrol (0–30 µM) for 48 h. The expression of Nanog, Oct-4 and Sox-2 was measured by the Western blot analysis. GAPDH was used as a loading control. (C), Inhibition of Nanog transcription by resveratrol. Pancreatic CSCs were transduced with Nanog reporter construct. Transduced cells were treated with resveratrol to examine the Nanog transcriptional activity. Data represent mean ± SD. *, #, @, & and ** = significantly different from control, P<0.05. (D), Pancreatic CSCs were treated with resveratrol (0–30 µM) for 36 h. The expression of ABCG2 was measured by qRT-PCR. Data represent mean ± SD. * and # = significantly different from control, P<0.05.