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. 2019 Jun 19;9:8742. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45009-1

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Inflammasome Formation: Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded 5 µm intestinal slices from lean mouse control (No. of mice per group, N = 8), wild type mouse control (NAFLD) (N = 8), wild type mouse group exposed with Microcystin (CHOW + MC) (N = 8) and another NAFLD group of mice exposed with Microcystin (NAFLD + MC) (N = 8) were used for immunofluorescence imaging. (A) (i–iv) Immunofluorescence images in 20X depicting NLRP3 (red) and ASC2 (green) colocalization, counterstained with DAPI (blue) in LC, CHOW + MC, NAFLD and NAFLD + MC group of mice intestine. (v) A higher magnification image was taken at 60 X magnification for the NAFLD + MC group. (B) Morphometric analysis of NLRP3-ASC2 colocalization immunoreactivity. Y-axis shows % positive immunoreactive area (% ROI) (n = 5, analysis from five separate microscopic fields) (*p < 0.05).