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. 2017 Dec 11;8(12):3202. doi: 10.1038/s41419-017-0002-y

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

HRD1 overexpression prevents PA-induced apoptosis of HKC-8 cells. a Palmitic acid (PA) treatment significantly increased the expressions of cleaved PARP, cleaved caspase-3, and BAX, but decreased Bcl-2 expression. However, Ad-HRD1 infection suppressed the PA-induced expression of cleaved PARP, cleaved caspase-3, and BAX. b Quantitation of western blot data for protein expressions as in (a), normalized to actin expression. c TUNEL staining showed that Ad-HRD1 infection reduced the numbers of apoptotic HKC-8 cells compared to cells treated with PA. d The means of data of TUNEL-positive area as in (c). Bars are means ± S.E. from three independent experiments. n.s. means no significance, *P < 0.05