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. 2018 Feb 19;9(3):285. doi: 10.1038/s41419-017-0171-8

Fig. 5. Increased expression of cAMP as well as activated Bax and caspase-3 in astrocytes of the glial lamina in glaucomatous DBA2/J mice.

Fig. 5

a and b Immunohistochemical analyses of cAMP (green), activated Bax (yellow), and caspase-3 (green) as well as GFAP (red) immunoreactivity in the ONH astrocytes in the glial lamina of age-matched non-glaucomatous DBA/2J-Gpnmb+ and 10-month-old glaucomatous DBA/2 J mice. Note that representative images showed increases of cAMP, activated Bax, and caspase-3 immunoreactivity in astrocytes of the glial lamina in glaucomatous DBA/2 J mice compared with non-glaucomatous DBA/2J-Gpnmb+. Nuclei were stained with Hoechst 33342. Scale bar, 20 μm. c Quantitative analysis showed significant increases of cAMP and GFAP, as well as activated Bax and caspase-3 immunoreactivity in glaucomatous DBA/2 J mice. For each determination, the immunoreactivity in controls was normalized to a value of 1.0. Data are shown as the mean ± S.D. (n = 5). *P < 0.05; ***P < 0.001 (two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-test)