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. 2018 Mar 22;8:5025. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23298-2

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Insulin increases the transcriptional activity of SF-1. Dose-dependent effect of insulin on SF-1 transcription in HEK293 cells (a). Increase in Cyp11b1 transcriptional activity by time-dependent insulin treatment after co-transfection of SF-1 (b). Relative luciferase activity of Cyp11b1 after insulin treatment in Y1 cells (c). Effect of insulin on SF-1 and steroidogenic genes after knocking down SF-1 (d and e). The values are mean ± SEM (*p < 0.05, Student’s t-test, one-way ANOVA). EV, empty vector. SF-1-Luc, SF-1 luciferase construct. Cyp11b1-Lu, Cyp11b1 luciferase construct.