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. 2016 Feb 3;6:20164. doi: 10.1038/srep20164

Figure 6. Effect of TTR in Aβ peptide internalization by hepatocytes:

Figure 6

(A) FAM-Aβ1-42 internalization by SAHep cells, in the absence or presence of increasing concentrations of h rTTR, as measured by flow cytometry. TTR concentrations up to 4.5–7.5 μg/mL resulted in increased Aβ internalization by cells. N = 3 for each condition. (B) Flow cytometry of primary cultures of hepatocytes derived from mice with different genetic TTR backgrounds; hepatocytes derived from TTR+/+ mice showed significantly more internalization of FAM-Aβ1-42 than those derived from TTR+/− and from TTR−/−. N =  11, N = 8, N = 14, N = 6 for hepatocytes derived from TTR +/+, TTR +/−, TTR −/− and h rTTR treated TTR −/− mice, respectively. (C) moTTR levels in supernatants of primary hepatocytes measured by ELISA confirmed the genetic reduction in TTR+/− which showed about half of the TTR in TTR+/+, while TTR−/− produced no TTR protein. N = 7 for TTR+/+ and −/− mice and N = 5 for TTR +/−.