Figure 5.
Effects of prednisolone on caspase activity and cleavage. (A) ELISA results for caspase-3 activity. (B) Densitometric analysis of the ratio of cleaved casepse-8 relative to β-actin. (C) Representative images of western blot analysis for pro-caspase-9 (Casp-9), cleaved caspase-9, cleaved caspase-8, and β-actin. Full, uncropped gel images are shown. (D) Densitometric analysis of the ratio of cleaved caspase-9 relative to β-actin. Data are presented as mean + SD from six independent sets of experiments. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ns: not significant.