Figure 2.
Quercetin alleviated human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs) senescence in vitro. HAECs were cultured for 48 h in the presence of 50 μg/mL ox-LDL, or 50 μg/mL ox-LDL followed with different quercetin (3, 1 or 0.3 μmol/L), and untreated HAECs was used as normal control. (A) HAECs senescence was assessed by SA-β-G staining. (B) Subcellular morphology was observed under transmission electron microscopy (TEM). (C) Fluorescence images of mitochondria by Mito Tracker Green as molecular probe. (D) HAECs senescence rate was semi-quantitative analyzed according to SA-β-G staining. *P < 0.05, vs untreated HAECs; ΔP < 0.05, vs ox-LDL; n = 3.