Figure 3.

Mahuang decoction treatment mitigated the fibrosis of the CKD kidney. (a) Representative images of Masson's trichrome staining were shown for the six groups of rats. Scale bar, 100 μm. (b) Quantification analysis of the fibrotic area. n = 8 for the CKD group and n = 10 for the left groups. (c) Representative images of IHC staining TGF-β1 in the kidney sections. Scale bar, 50 μm. (d) Quantification of the staining intensity of TGF-β1 in (c). n = 3 animals for each group. In (b) and (d), ^∗∗∗p ≤ 0.001versus the control group and ^#p < 0.05and ^###p ≤ 0.001versus the CKD group.