Fig. 3. Depletion of AQP3 inhibited HCC celluar tumorigenicity.
Subcutaneous tumorigenicity experiments in nude mice showed 28 days after cell injection, lower tumor weight, and volume was observed in Lv-AQP3-shRNAs groups compared with Lv-AQP3-NC groups (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01). The subcutaneous tumors of nude mice were prepared into paraffin sections, IHC was used to test the protein levels of AQP3, CD133 and pY705-STAT3, results showed CD133 and pY705-STAT3 expression were decreased when AQP3 knockdown