Journal: Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993)
Article Title: Disruption of the caspase-1/IL-1β axis alleviates myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion injury via improvement of mitochondrial homeostasis and reduction of Pyroptosis.
doi: 10.1080/10641963.2025.2506619
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 4. Caspase-1 silencing reduces the secretion of IL-1β and inhibits myocardial injury due to cardiomyocyte pyroptosis. A, Western blot of caspase-1 and IL-1β proteins in myocardial tissues of I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1#1 or sh-caspase-1#2. B, IL-1β serum levels in I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1 measured by ELISA. C, LDH level measurement in the serum of I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1. D, evaluation of cardiac physical function in I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1 by echocardiography. E, myocardial infarct size in I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1 detected by TTC staining. F, HE staining of cardiomyocyte injury in I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1. G, cardiomyocyte pyroptosis in I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1 evaluated by CaV3 (live cardiomyocytes, green) and EBD (necrotic cells, red) double staining. H, Western blot of RIP1, p-RIP1, RIPK3, and p-RIPK3, MLKL, and p-MLKL proteins in myocardial tissues of I/R mice treated with sh-caspase-1. I, morphological changes of myocardial cells in ultrathin sections of myocardial tissue were observed by transmission electron microscopy. n = 10 mice for each treatment. * p < .05.
Article Snippet: After 5% skimmed milk powder blocking, the membrane was probed with primary rabbit antibodies to GAPDH (ab9485, Abcam), Caspase-1 (sc -392 736, Santa Cruz Biotechnology), IL-1β (ab234437, Abcam), RIP1 (ab300617, Abcam), p-RIP1 (53286, Cell Signaling Technology, Shanghai, China), RIPK3 (ab62344, Abcam), p-RIPK3 (ab195117, Abcam), MLKL (ab255747, Abcam), p-MLKL (ab196436, Abcam) and then with secondary antibody peroxidase-conjugated AffiniPure goat anti-rabbit IgG (H + L) (#111035003, Jackson ImmunoResearch).
Techniques: Western Blot, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Staining, Double Staining, Transmission Assay, Electron Microscopy