Fig. 3.

HGF alleviated endothelial pyroptosis in vitro. EA.hy926 cells were stimulated with LPS (2.5 μg/mL) with or without Lipo2000 (2 μL/mL), followed by administration of HGF (25 ng/mL) immediately and 6 h later. a Bright-field image of treated EA.hy926 cells from randomly selected fields of view, in which morphological changes characteristic of pyroptosis were assessed; scale bar = 100 μm; b Relative paracellular permeability of single-layer EA.hy926 cells exposed to different treatments and analysed by FITC-dextran; c IL-1β in the supernatant of treated EA.hy926 cells was measured by ELISA; d LDH release assay was performed to measure pyroptosis of the treated EA.hy926 cells, n = 3, *P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01; e CASP-1, CASP-1-P10, GSDMD and GSDMD-N in the treated EA.hy926 cell homogenates were measured by Western blot; n = 3