Journal: Breast cancer research and treatment
Article Title: Psoriasin (S100A7) increases the expression of ROS and VEGF and acts through RAGE to promote endothelial cell proliferation.
doi: 10.1007/s10549-011-1920-5
Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 4 Psoriasin induces the proliferation of endothelial cells through interaction with RAGE and increased levels of ROS. a Treatment with VEGF (10 ng/ml for 24 h) and psoriasin (0.15 lg/ml for 24 h) significantly increased the ROS generation in HUVECs. Four experiments were performed in duplicate. b HUVECs treated with sRAGE before the treatment with recombinant psoriasin protein displayed a significantly reduced ROS formation, compared with psoriasin-treated cells. Experiments were performed in duplicate. c HUVECs were infected with Bcl-2-expressing adenovirus (Ad- Bcl2-GFP), prior to the treatment with recombinant psoriasin, which led to a significant reduction in HUVEC proliferation. ROS formation in HUVECs was determined by the NBT assay, and proliferation was determined by the MTS assay. Untreated HUVECs and HUVECs treated with VEGF, sRAGE and Ad-Bcl2-GFP served as controls. Untreated HUVECs were designed as 1, and treated HUVECs, from the same experiment, were normalized to this. The data are expressed as mean ± SD. The P-values (* \ 0.05, ** \ 0.01) were calculated using a one-tailed t-test, ns indicate not statistically significant bars compared with control
Article Snippet: To investigate the effect of RAGE on cell proliferation, HUVECs were treated with an anti-RAGE antibody (20 lg/ml for 3 h) (Millipore, MAB5328) or soluble RAGE (sRAGE) (50 ng/ml for 30 min) (R&D Systems, 1145-RG).
Techniques: Recombinant, Infection, Expressing, MTS Assay, One-tailed Test, Control