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. 2018 May 3;8:6954. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25295-x

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Decreased expression of autophagy genes in kidneys of STZ-injected diabetic mice relative to control mice and reversal of this effect on some genes with LNA-anti-miR-192 oligonucleotides.qRT-PCR analysis of autophagy genes in kidney cortex lysates from control (n = 3) and STZ-injected mice. (A) 2 weeks and (B) 16 weeks after induction of diabetes treated with either negative control (NC) (n = 3) or LNA-anti-miR-192 (LNA) oligonucleotides (n = 4). Scale bar, 20 µm. x400 (10 × 40) magnification. (C) Representative immunostaining and quantification for Atg5 or p62 and glomerular area from cortical sections of control mice treated with NC oligonucleotides (Control-NC) (n = 3), STZ-injected diabetic mice treated with NC oligonucleotides (STZ-NC) (n = 3), and STZ-injected diabetic mice treated with LNA-anti-miR-192 oligonucleotides (STZ-LNA) (n = 4). (D) Western blot and quantification of LC3 levels (LC3-2/LC3-1) from kidney cortex lysates of Control-NC mice (n = 3), STZ-NC mice (n = 3), and STZ-LNA mice (n = 4) 16 weeks post diabetes induction. Uncropped scans are presented in Supplementary Fig. 1. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.