Figure 2. Caspase activation after Epo removal.
Western blotting (A) of total cell lysates from one independent culture, harvested after 6 hour, 12 hour and 24 hour in ESDL (+Epo) and SDL (-Epo) using an antibody against cleaved caspase 3, caspase 9, caspase 8, and hsc70 was used as a loading control. 20 µg of protein lysate was loaded in each well (B) Flow Cytometry analysis of active caspase 8, active caspase 3 and active caspase 9 for ESDL (thick black line) grown cells and SDL (dotted grey line) after 24 hours. Active caspase 9 was detected on a separate culture from the caspase 3 and caspase 9 and using a different flow cytometer.