Figure 7.

Effects of berberine on expressions of pro-apoptotic (cleaved caspase-3 and bax) and anti-apoptotic (bcl-2) proteins in glutamate-injured PC12 cells. The blots (A) are representative of six different experiments with similar results and the bar graphs showing relative protein band expressions of cleaved caspase-3 (B) and bax/bcl-2 ratio (C) with β-actin as a protein loading control. The data were expressed as means as mean ± SEM (n=5). ***P<0.01 as compared to untreated control cells. ^#P<0.05, ^###P< 0.001 as compared to glutamate-injured cells