Figure 5.

Effects of soyasapogenol C on lipid accumulation in palmitate-treated HepG2 cells. (A) HepG2 cells were treated with soyasapogenol C at various concentrations for 24 h, and cell viability was determined via Ez-Cytox assay. HepG2 cells were treated with palmitate for 24 h. (B) Measurement of intracellular triglyceride (TG) contents. (C) Lipid accumulation was determined via Oil Red O staining. Images of cells were photographed at 200× magnification. Data are presented as the mean ± SE of three independent experiments. ### p < 0.001 vs. blank, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 and *** p < 0.001 vs. palmitate treated group.