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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mucosal Immunol. 2014 Mar 26;7(6):1340–1353. doi: 10.1038/mi.2014.21

Figure 4. Claudin-2 modulates colonic epithelial cell homeostasis.

Figure 4

A(i). Representative images showing BrdU-positive cells in control and DSS-treated animals. Please note that crypts in DSS-treated WT mice are BrdU-negative but that adjoining infiltrating immune cells are positive, A(ii) FACS-analysis of colonic epithelial cells co-immunostained for BrdU and cleaved-caspase-3, and A(iii). Immunoblot analysis to determine cyclin-D1 expression; B(i) Representative images showing cleaved caspase-3-positive cells in control and DSS-treated animals, B(ii). FACS analysis using colonic epithelial cells co-immunostained for BrdU and cleaved-caspase-3, and B(iii). Immunoblot analysis to determine cleaved caspase-3 expression in control and DSS-treated mice: N# 3–6. Values are mean+sem. *p<0.05, **p<0.01. Scale bars=500 μm.