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. 2019 Nov 12;9:16613. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53147-9

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Histological analysis after NTX treatment. (A) Histological images representing hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining (1st row), immunohistochemistry images of Ki-67, (2nd row), APE-1 (3rd row) and TUNEL staining (4th row) for the control and NTX groups (×400 for H&E and ×200 for immunohistochemistry). (BD) The cellularity (P = 0.0071) evaluated by H&E, Ki-67 (P = 0.0180), and APE-1 (P = 0.0180) was significantly decreased in the NTX group compared to the control group. (E) Moreover, apoptotic cells, evaluated by TUNEL assay, were significantly increased in the NTX group (P = 0.0071). (F,G) The tumor cellularity and level of APE-1 showed a negative correlation with the ADC value (P = 0.0089, R2 = 0.71) and (P = 0.0031, R2 = 0.79), respectively, in both the control and NTX groups.