Figure 5.
HIF-1α inhibition abolishes the up-regulation of COXIV-1 after microwave exposure and impairs mitochondrial functions in neuron-like cells. Neuron-like cells were treated with 400 μM Bisphenol A at 1 h before microwave exposure. At 9 h after exposure, cells were collected. The protein expression of HIF-1α, COXIV-1 and COXIV-2 were detected by western-blotting (A). And, the quantitative analysis were presented in (B), (C) and (D), respectively. The ratio of COXIV-1 to COXIV-2 was also calculated (E). To evaluate the mitochondrial functions, the ATP content (F), the mitochondrial membrane potentials (MMP) (G), and mitochondrial ROS (H) was analyzed by commercial kit. Data were shown as mean ± s.e.m. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 compared to corresponding group.