Fig 4.

Analysis of the effects of a PHx on HNF3 and Stat3. HBV transgenic mice were subjected to a PHx and sacrificed the next day (D1) for the isolation of the liver. The resected liver was used as the day 0 (D0) control. (A) Western blot analysis for the expression of the three HNF3 isoforms HNF3α, HNF3β, and HNF3γ. Lamin-β was also analyzed to serve as a loading control. (B) Western blot analysis of Stat3 and phosphor-Stat3 (Y705) in the liver of naïve control mice and HBV transgenic mice. The asterisk denotes a nonspecific band which was not always observed in our experiments. The α-actin protein was also analyzed to serve as the loading control.