Journal: Aging (Albany NY)
Article Title: Lei’s formula attenuates osteoarthritis mediated by suppression of chondrocyte senescence via the mTOR axis: in vitro and in vivo experiments
doi: 10.18632/aging.205582
Figure Lengend Snippet: Activation of mTOR exacerbates H 2 O 2 -stimulated chondrocyte senescence and anabolic catabolic disorders that can be reversed by LSF. ( A ) Western blotting for protein expression of Col2, Adamts5, P16 and mTOR in chondrocytes processed with H 2 O 2 (200 μmol/L) and MHY1485 (10 μmol/L). ( B – E ) Quantitative results of Western blotting of the 5 groups of proteins. ( F – M ) Expression of Col2, Sox9, MMP13, Adamts5, P16, P21, mTOR, and S6 in chondrocytes processed with H 2 O 2 (200 μmol/L) and MHY1485 (10 μmol/L) was detected by qRT-PCR. ( N ) Cellular senescence was assessed by SA-β-gal staining. Compared to the control group, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001; compared to the H 2 O 2 -stimulated group, *P <0.05, *P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P<0.0001; compared to the H 2 O 2 -stimulated combined MHY1485 group, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P <0.001, ****P < 0.0001.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies against CDKN2A/p16INK4a (1:100) were purchased from Zenbio (Chengdu, China), and the primary antibody against Adamts5 (1:50) was acquired from HUABIO (Hangzhou, China).
Techniques: Activation Assay, Western Blot, Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Staining