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. 2021 Oct 21;11:20761. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99652-8

Figure 2.

Figure 2

HFs express crucial glycogen metabolism proteins and actively uptake and accumulate glucose. GLUT1 (a), GYS1 (b), PYGL (c) and PGM1 (d) immunofluorescence in cultured anagen and catagen human HFs. Details of suprabulbar anagen HFs (a) GLUT1 (green) and MCT1 (red), arrow-basal ORS cells; (b) GYS1 (green) showing basal and suprabasal ORS and IRS expression, arrow-basal ORS-KC, Flügel cells (asterisk). (c) Suprabasal ORS stained with PYGL (green) and CD34 (red), arrow-basal ORS. (d) PGM1 (green), arrow-hair cuticle cells. Representative images of at least 12 images from 5 individuals. Scale bars 100 μm. mRNA expression of GLUT1 (a) GYS1 (b) PYGL (c) and PGM1 (d) in whole HFs cultured in vitro for 1 (anagen) and 6–7 days (catagen). 5 HFs per sample, N = 4, normalized to B2M. Paired two-tailed t-test (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.005),  ±SEM.