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. 2020 Apr 20;11(4):249. doi: 10.1038/s41419-020-2438-8

Fig. 5. Upregulation of TGFBI and TNC in migration-promoting MDM subtypes.

Fig. 5

a Expression of TGFBI mRNA in asc-MDM, m1-MDM, and m2c-MDM analyzed by RT-qPCR in five different donors. b Detection of TGFBI protein in cell lysates by western blotting. β-Actin was used as loading control. Blots of three donors are shown. c TGFBI secretion of polarized MDM measured by ELISA of conditioned media (n = 4). TGFBI protein levels are indicated as ng/ml. d Expression of TNC mRNA was analyzed in asc-MDM, m1-MDM, and m2c-MDM by RT-qPCR in five different donors. e Detection of TNC protein in cell lysates by western blotting. β-Actin was used as loading control (same blot as in b, since both TGFBI and TNC were analyzed in the same experiment) (n = 3). f Western blot of TNC protein in the conditioned media. The analysis was carried out with tenfold concentrated conditioned media from equal numbers of different MDM subtypes. g Quantification of TNC secretion by different MDM subtypes was performed using the Image LabTM 5.0 software in five different donors. TNC protein levels were normalized to 1 for asc-TAM. p Values were determined by paired t test (*p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001).