Journal: PLOS One
Article Title: Rosuvastatin protects against oxLDL-induced endothelial cell oxidative stress and attenuates atherosclerotic plaque formation in ApoE -/- mice through the NF-κB pathway
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0339967
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Effects of different concentrations of rosuvastatin (0.1, 1, 5 and 10 µM) on HUVEC viability for 24 h. (B) Effects of treatment with different concentrations of ox-LDL (50, 100 and 200 µg/mL) for 24 h on HUVEC viability. (C) HUVECs were treated with different concentrations of rosuvastatin and ox-LDL (200 µg/ml) for 24 h. * P < 0.05, *** P < 0.001 by one-way ANOVA. (D) Bar chart showing the signaling pathways enriched with DEGs in the RNA-Seq dataset ( GSE206927 ) of ox-LDL-treated HUVECs according to GO analysis. (E) Bubble chart showing the signaling pathways enriched with DEGs according to KEGG analysis. (F-G) HUVECs stimulated with ox-LDL and different concentrations of rosuvastatin were stained with DAPI (blue) and Ki67 (purple). Ki67-positive cells were quantified, bar = 100 μm, * P < 0.05, **** P < 0.0001 by one-way ANOVA.
Article Snippet: Primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) (Cat#PCS-100–010, ATCC, Maryland, USA) were maintained in vascular cell basal medium (Cat#PCS-100–030, ATCC, Maryland, USA) containing ascorbic acid (Cat#PCS-999–006, ATCC, Maryland, USA), FBS (Cat#PCS-999–010, ATCC, Maryland, USA), rhEGF (Cat#PCS-999–018, ATCC, Maryland, USA), heparin sulfate (Cat#PCS-999–011, ATCC, Maryland, USA), L-glutamine (Cat#PCS-999–017, ATCC, Maryland, USA), rhVEGF (Cat#PCS-999–024, ATCC, Maryland, USA), rhFGF-b (Cat#PCS-999–020, ATCC, Maryland, USA), rhIGF-1 (Cat#PCS-999–021, ATCC, Maryland, USA), and hydrocortisone (Cat#PCS-999–014, ATCC, Maryland, USA) at 37°C in an atmosphere containing 5% CO 2 .
Techniques: Protein-Protein interactions, RNA Sequencing, Staining