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. 2022 Dec 8;128(4):691–701. doi: 10.1038/s41416-022-02074-0

Fig. 1. Effect of DAC and ATRA on cellular viability and apoptosis in MDS and AML cells.

Fig. 1

a Co-treatment with DAC and ATRA inhibited the cellular viability of MDS-L and MOLM-13 cells. The cells were measured by CellTiter-Lumi™ Assay after treatment with DAC and/or ATRA at the indicated concentrations for 48 h. b Combined treatment with DAC and ATRA enhanced the apoptosis of MDS-L and MOLM-13 cells. The cells were treated with DAC and/or ATRA at the indicated concentrations for 48 h and co-stained with annexin V and PI, after which apoptosis was measured by flow cytometry. The results are presented as bar graphs (n = 3). c The expression of cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP increased significantly after treatment with a combined strategy compared to the single drug treatment. The expression of cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved PARP was determined by western blotting and quantified by ImageJ (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA). GAPDH served as a loading control. d Co-treatment with DAC and ATRA significantly inhibited cell viability in primary blast cells of MDS and AML patients as measured by a CellTiter-Lumi™ Assay. The data are presented as the mean ± SD from three independent experiments. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001.