Figure 8.

Effects of miR-146a-3p inhibitor and shTrkB on normal chondrocyte apoptosis and expression of apoptosis-related proteins. (a) The effects of miR-146a-3p inhibitor and shTrkB on normal chondrocyte apoptosis were detected by flow cytometry. (b) The effects of miR-146a-3p inhibitor and shTrkB on apoptosis-related proteins expression in normal chondrocytes were detected by Western blot. GAPDH served as an internal reference. All experiments were repeated three times to average. Normal chondrocytes: CHON-001. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 vs. IC + NC; ^## p < 0.01, ^### p < 0.001 vs IC + shTrkB; ^{^} p < 0.05, ^{^^} p < 0.01 vs. I + NC