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. 2018 Mar 9;9(3):387. doi: 10.1038/s41419-018-0399-y

Fig. 3. Down-regulation of ELF3 inhibited the proliferation, migration, and invasion of HCC cell in vitro.

Fig. 3

a Western blot and qPCR evaluated the protein expression and mRNA of ELF3 in MHCC-LM3-siELF3-1, MHCC-LM3-siELF3-2, MHCC-LM3-siELF3-3 cells and MHCC-LM3-sicontrol cells. b The colony formation and c CCK-8 assay revealed that down-regulation of ELF3 inhibited MHCC-LM3-shELF3 cells' growth in vitro. d Transwell migration and invasion assays indicated that ELF3 knockdown inhibited cell migration and invasion (magnification ×100, scale bar: 200 μm). Each error bar represents the mean ± SD of three replicate samples. p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, and ***p < 0.001 based on the Student's t test