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. 2016 Oct 21;11(10):e0165093. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165093

Fig 8. The effects of rLj-RGD3 on caspase-3 and Bcl-2 protein expression in focal cerebral ischemia/reperfusion rats as assayed using western blot analysis.

Fig 8

The expression of caspase-3 protein was significantly higher in the VT group than in the sham group (##p <0.01). The rLj-RGD3 groups exhibited markedly lower levels of caspase-3 expression (**p <0.01 vs. the VT group). The anti-apoptosis gene Bcl-2 was markedly up-regulated in the rLj-RGD3 treatment groups, which demonstrated that rLj-RGD3 inhibits apoptosis. The data are shown as the means ± SD. For the western blotting analysis, one-way ANOVA was used to compare protein expression levels between the ischemia and sham groups.