Figure 10.

Effect of combined CPT and AgNPs treatment on the expression of proapoptotic and antiapoptotic genes expression in HeLa cells. HeLa cells were incubated with CPT (1 μM), AgNPs (1 μM), or a combination of CPT (1 μM) and AgNPs (1 μM) for 24 h, and then the relative expression levels of proapoptotic and antiapoptotic genes were analyzed by qRT-PCR. The results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation of three separate experiments. The treatment groups showed statistically significant differences from the control group, as determined by Student's t-test (^∗p < 0.05).