Figure 5.
Protective role of GSPE treatment on AFB1-induced protein expression levels of the Nrf2 signaling pathway in the liver of broilers. The protein expression of β-actin, Nrf2, HO-1, GPx1, NQO1, and GCLC were detected by western blotting. All data were expressed as mean ± SD. Different symbols among groups indicate significant difference by LSD test (p < 0.05). * (p < 0.05) significant differences compared to the control group and ^ (p < 0.05) significant differences compared to the AFB1 group. (A) Nuclear erythroid-2-related factor (Nrf2); (B) heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1); (C) glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPx1); (D) quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1); (E) glutamate-cysteine ligase catalytic subunit (GCLC).