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. 2015 Mar 30;10(3):e0121161. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121161

Fig 2. Phenotypic characterization of immortalized rat portal fibroblastic RGF and RGF-N2 cell lines by immunoblot.

Fig 2

(A) Immortalized rat PF RGF and RGF-N2 protein samples were analyzed for expression of Gfap and cytokeratins. Housekeeping Gapdh protein was used as loading control, Mz-Cha-1 cell lysate as positive control for cytokeratin expression, and HSC-T6 cell lysate as positive control for Gfap expression. RGF (passage #59, 1st lane and passage #34, 2nd lane) and RGF-N2 (passage #52, 1st lane and passage #25, 2nd lane) cells do express neither cytokeratin proteins nor Gfap protein (after 45 passages for the latter). (B) Immortalized rat PF RGF and RGF-N2 protein samples were analyzed for expression of αSMA, Elastin, Pdgfrβ and Egfr. RGF and RGF-N2 express all proteins tested. Housekeeping Gapdh protein was used as loading control. kDa, kiloDaltons.