Journal: Folia histochemica et cytobiologica
Article Title: Electroacupuncture stimulation inhibited astrogliosis and microglia polarisation to alleviate spinal cord injury via Janus kinase 2/signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 signalling pathway.
doi: 10.5603/fhc.104273
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 2. Electroacupuncture (EA) protected neurons against spinal cord injury (SCI)-induced apoptosis. Tissues were obtained and processed as described for Fig. 1 and in Methods. A. Nissl staining of spinal cord. Upper panel shows full cross sections of spinal cord, scale bar = 500 μm. Lower panel shows partial enlargement of sections, scale bar = 50 μm; B. Representative images showing immunofluo- rescence of TUNEL+/NeuN+ in rat spinal cord, scale bar = 50 μm; C. Quantification of percentage of TUNEL and NeuN dual-positive cells in spinal cord; D. Left panel shows immune blots of B-cell lymphoma-2 associated X protein (Bax), BH3-interacting domain death agonist (Bid), and B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2). Right panel shows quantification of Bax, Bid, and Bcl-2 protein expression in lysates of spinal cord. Numeric data refers to Figs. 2C, D, results expressed as mean ± standard deviation, n = 6 in each group. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, API — 4’,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole; Ns — not significant.
Article Snippet: The PVDF membrane was blocked with a membrane sealing solution (Solarbio) at RT for 1 h. Primary antibodies [B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2; 1:1,000, Proteintech), BH3-interacting domain death agonist (Bid; 1:1,500, Proteintech), B-cell lymphoma-2 associated X protein (Bax; 1:5,000, Proteintech), JAK2 (1:1,500, Affinity), STAT3 (1:2,000, Proteintech), Phospho-JAK2 (p-JAK2; 1:800, ABclonal, Wuhan, China), p-STAT3 (1:1,000, Affinity), and glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH; 1:10,000, Proteintech)] were incubated with the PVDF membranes overnight at 4°C and washed with Tris-buffered saline with tween-20 (TBS-T) buffer.
Techniques: Staining, TUNEL Assay, Expressing, Standard Deviation