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. 2018 Aug 23;50(8):110. doi: 10.1038/s12276-018-0137-7

Fig. 4. Effect of silencing overexpressed TFF3 on the expression of apoptosis-related proteins.

Fig. 4

a TFF3 expression after TFF3 silencing. The relative levels of TFF3 mRNA expression at 72 h after siRNA treatment were measured by real-time RT-PCR. The mRNA expression of TFF3 was downregulated by over 90% (***P < 0.001) after silencing TFF3 in both cells. b The western blot analysis shows that cleaved caspase-3 and caspase-9 are increased but that procaspase-3 and procaspase-9 levels did not change after TFF3 silencing. The level of cleaved PARP, another hallmark of programmed cell death, also increased. c, d The immunocytochemistry shows elevated cleaved caspase-3 and caspase-9 (green) levels in TFF3-silenced cells compared with non-silenced cells (400×). Nuclei (blue: Hoechst 33342)