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. 2019 Jan 29;9:920. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37000-z

Figure 1.

Figure 1

High ROS, DNA damage and the impairment of DNA damage repair in ATII cells in emphysema patients. ROS levels were analyzed in freshly isolated ATII cells from control non-smokers (NS), smokers (SM) and emphysema patients (EM) using DCF staining by flow cytometry. Representative images of flow cytometry profiles (A) and quantification (B) are shown. Representative Western blot images of OGG1 expression (C) and densitometric quantification of OGG1 expression normalized to GAPDH and non-smokers (D). Comet assay was used to detect DNA damage in freshly isolated ATII cells (E). Quantification of the Olive Tail Moment is also shown (F). Data are shown as mean values ± s.e.m. (N = 6 per group; *p < 0.05; ***p < 0.001, magnification 10 × 40).