Figure 5.
Decreasing of caspase-1 and caspase-11 affect the cell activity of NRK-52E cells after H/R. (A) Effects of different concentrations of Z-YVAD-FMK on cell activity in normoxic state. (B) NRK-52E cell activity at different times of reoxygenation. (C) Effects of different concentrations of Z-YVAD-FMK on the cell activity after 6 h of H/R. (D) Expression of caspase-11 mRNA after caspase-11 siRNA transfection. (E) Expression of caspase-11 protein and statistical analysis after caspase-11 siRNA transfection. (F) Effect of caspase-1 inhibition by Z-YVAD-FMK and caspase-11 inhibition by siRNA on cell activity, as detected by CCK-8. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ##p < 0.05. Z = Z-YVAD-FMK; H/R, hypoxia/reoxygenation; R, reoxygenation; DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide; Si-casp11, small interfering ribonucleic acid caspase-11; Si-NC, si-caspase-11 negative control; GAPDH, glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase.