Journal: Stroke and Vascular Neurology
Article Title: Enhanced liver X receptor signalling reduces brain injury and promotes tissue regeneration following experimental intracerebral haemorrhage: roles of microglia/macrophages
doi: 10.1136/svn-2023-002331
Figure Lengend Snippet: GW3965 upregulates LXR downstream-gene expression. (A) Representative images of confocal tile scan showing whole day 7 lesion labelled with DAPI (blue), GFAP (Cyan), ABCA1 (green) and Iba1 (red). Scale bar, 200 µm. (B) Representative image of a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a perihaematomal region in the treatment group using Imaris. Scale bar, 3 µm. (C) Representative confocal images of perihaematomal region labelled with DAPI (blue), GFAP (cyan), ABCA1 (green) and Iba1 (red). The left corner within dotted lines depicts lesion centre. Scale bar, 100 µm. (D–F), Bar graphs comparing the ABCA1 + percentage (D), Iba1 + ABCA1 + over Iba1 + proportions (E) and GFAP + ABCA1 + over GFAP + proportions (F) between GW3965 treatment and DMSO control within the lesion region at day 7; the sample size was n=10 per group. (G) Representative images of confocal tile scan showing whole day 7 lesion labelled with DAPI (blue), Iba1 (cyan), GFAP (green) and ApoE (red). Scale bar, 200 µm. Scale bars are not equal. (H), Representative image of a 3D reconstruction of a perihaematomal region in the treatment group using Imaris. Scale bar, 7 µm. (I), Representative confocal images of perihaematomal region labelled with DAPI (blue), Iba1 (cyan), GFAP (green) and ApoE (red). The left corner within dotted lines is the lesion centre. Scale bar, 100 µm. (J–L), Bar graphs comparing the ApoE + percentage (J), GFAP + ApoE + over GFAP + proportions (K) and Iba1 + ApoE + over Iba1 + proportions (L) between GW3965 treatment and DMSO control within the lesion region at day 7; the sample size was n=10 per group. Significance is indicated as *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ****p<0.0001; two-tailed, unpaired t-test (D, F, K); or two-tailed, unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction (E); or Mann-Whitney U test (J, L). Bar graphs show individual data points and represent mean±SD. ApoE, apolipoprotein E; LXR, liver X receptor.
Article Snippet: After transferring to Hybond polyvinylidene difluoride (Amersham) membrane using a wet transfer system (Bio-Rad), membranes were blocked with 5% BSA and then probed overnight with the following primary antibodies: rabbit anti-human/mouse ABCA1 (1:1000; Cell Signaling, 96292), rabbit anti-mouse ApoE (1:1000; Cell Signaling, 49285), mouse anti-human/mouse IL-1β (1:1000; Cell Signaling, 12242), rabbit anti-mouse iNOS (1:1000; Cell Signaling, 13120), rabbit anti-human/mouse CD206 (1:1000; Cell Signaling, 24595), rabbit anti-human/mouse Arginase 1 (1:1000; Cell Signaling, 93668) and rabbit anti-mouse β-Actin (1:1000; Cell Signaling, 24595).
Techniques: Gene Expression, Control, Two Tailed Test, MANN-WHITNEY