Table 4.

Effects of matrine and CCL21 on apoptosis relative genes in LK2 cells. Data are presented as mean ± SEM. The values having different superscript letters were significantly different with other groups (P < 0.05; n = 6).

Genes	Control	Matrine	Matrine+CCL21	CCL21
p53	1.00 ± 0.12b	1.35 ± 0.09a	0.96 ± 0.08b	0.87 ± 0.08c
Casp3	1.00 ± 0.09a	0.76 ± 0.09b	0.94 ± 0.12a	1.03 ± 0.11a
Casp8	1.00 ± 0.17	0.94 ± 0.22	1.14 ± 0.23	1.07 ± 0.19
Casp9	1.00 ± 0.12	0.97 ± 0.14	1.05 ± 0.13	0.88 ± 0.14
Bcl-2	1.00 ± 0.16	0.99 ± 0.12	0.99 ± 0.08	1.12 ± 0.14
Bax	1.00 ± 0.11c	1.41 ± 0.17a	1.25 ± 0.06b	0.89 ± 0.09c
Fas	1.00 ± 0.15	1.23 ± 0.18	1.27 ± 0.17	1.09 ± 0.11
Fas-L	1.00 ± 0.13	1.21 ± 0.13	1.32 ± 0.16	1.24 ± 0.28