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. 2018 May 15;8:7576. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-26049-5

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effect of plasma on chicken sperm mRNA and protein expression. Semen of 60-week-old cocks was exposed to varying plasma potentials for 20 s. Relative mRNA levels of the following genes were measured: (a) NOX4, NRF2, and KEAP1; (b) SOD, CAT, and GPx; (c) PRDX1, PRDX3, PRDX4, and PRDX6; (d) ATP5A1, ATP5B, ATP5C1, ATP5F1, ATP5G1, ATP5G3, ATP5H, ATP5I, ATP5J, ATP5J2, ATP5L, and ATP5S; and (e) AMPKα2, AMPKβ2, AMPKγ3, and mTOR. (f) Western blot analysis of protein bands. Uncropped immunoblot scans are presented in Supplementary Figure S1. The grouping of gels/blots cropped from different gels. All blots were visualized with 5 min exposure time. Relative protein levels of (g) NRF2, KEAP1, PRDX4, (h) ATP5A, (i) p-AMPKα/AMPKα, and (j) p-mTOR/mTOR. Values are expressed as the mean ± standard error (n = 3) of three replicates; n represents an individual cock. *p < 0.05 versus control; **p < 0.01 versus control, according to one-way ANOVA and LSD test.