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. 2021 Jul 28;16:66. doi: 10.1186/s13020-021-00474-7

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

PTE promotes apoptosis and autophagy by downregulating ASIC2 in TGF-β1-induced cells. A549 and AECs that were transfected with ASIC2 overexpression plasmid were treated with 10 ng/ml TGF-β1 and 30 μmol/L PTE for 24 h. Apoptosis was analyzed by flow cytometry assay (A, B). The expressions of apoptosis-related protein (C, D) and autophagy-related protein (E, F) were detected by western blot. All experiments were repeated 3 times independently, and Student’s t test or ANOVA was used to compare the differences between groups. *P < 0.05 compared with TGF-β1 group; #P < 0.05 compared with TGF-β1 + PTE group