Figure 11.

Impact of Sal or AgNPs or combination effect of Sal and AgNPs on the expression of autophagy regulated genes.

Notes: Relative mRNA expression was analyzed by qRT-PCR in human ovarian cancer cells after the treatment with Sal (3 µM), AgNPs (4 µg/mL), or both Sal (3 µM) and AgNPs (4 µg/mL) for 24 hours. The results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation of three independent experiments. The treated groups showed statistically significant differences from the control group by the Student’s t-test (*P<0.05).

Abbreviations: AgNPs, silver nanoparticles; Con, control; qRT-PCR, quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Sal, salinomycin.