Skip to main content
. 2014 Sep 5;9(9):e107052. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107052

Figure 2. Dietary Vitamin D3 differentially affects VDR, ΔNp63α and PTEN levels in response to UVB.

Figure 2

Top panels show representative images of (a) VDR, (b) ΔNp63α, or (c) PTEN staining in normal skin from irradiated and unirradiated skin obtained from mice fed diets with increasing concentration of Vitamin D3 as indicated were taken at a 20x magnification, scale bar  = 20 µm. Quantitation of (a) VDR, (b) ΔNp63α, or (c) PTEN staining from three animals per treatment condition is plotted in the lower panels. Y-axis represents the mean fluorescent intensity, normalized to background, in arbitrary units. Error bars represent standard error of mean. * = p≤0.05 compared to unirradiated skin; # = p≤0.05 compared to respective unirradiated or irradiated skin from mice fed 3 IU Vitamin D3.