Figure 5.
Inhibition of ERK2 in HSC-5NW cells restored cell proliferation and stabilized nuclear FOXO1. (A) The graph shows the total cell number after 5 days of incubation of HSC-5CN and HSC-5NW cells treated with 2 nM Pyrazolyl or DMSO. (B) Representative immunofluorescence images of HSC-5CN and HSC-5NW cells treated as in (A) stained for FOXO1 (green). Nuclei were counterstained with DAPI (blue). Scale bar represents 20 µm, n = 3. (C) Quantification of nuclear FOXO1 fluorescence from 20 randomly chosen cells per experiment and normalized to DMSO-treated HSC-5CN cells. All values are the mean ± SD, n = 3, * p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001.