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. 2019 Jul 1;11(3):21. doi: 10.1038/s41368-019-0054-1

Fig. 10.

Fig. 10

TNF-α induced EndMT by upregulating the expression of EndMT markers in HUVECs. a Exposure of HUVECs to TNF-α (10 ng/ml) for 2 days induced morphological changes (bright field) and increased the level of fibroblast-specific protein-1 (FSP-1) in HUVECs. Scale bars: 50 μm. b Expression levels of EndMT-related genes determined by qPCR. Beta-actin served as loading control. c Representative Western blots of EndMT-related signaling molecules as well as mesenchymal and endothelial proteins. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01 in one-way ANOVA. Results represent the means ± SD performed in triplicate