Figure 2. IL-13 lowers alters the intra- and extracellular oxidative potential by decreasing intracellular GSH and GSH:GSSG and increasing extracellular GSSG.
(A) IL-13 decreases intracellular GSH levels and lowers the GSH:GSSG ratio (n = 6). (B) IL-13 also decreases extracellular GSH levels but increases extracellular GSSG, lowering GSH:GSSG (n = 6). (C) IL-13 (10 ng/mL) increases expression of 15LO1, GPX4, and SLC7A11 by Western blot, with GPX4 and SLC7A11 increases quantified by densitometry (n = 4–12). Matched-pair analysis of log-transformed data was used to compare conditions.