Journal: Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
Article Title: High glucose induces and activates Toll-like receptor 4 in endothelial cells of diabetic retinopathy
doi: 10.1186/s13098-015-0086-4
Figure Lengend Snippet: Activation of MyD88 and cytokine expression in HMEC-1 cells under high glucose condition. a Western blotting was performed for MyD88 expression in the HMEC-1 cells after exposure to 15 and 25 mmol/l glucose for 12 h. β-actin was used as a control. b Cells were treated with 15 and 25 mmol/l glucose for 6 h. The mRNA for IL-1β was detected by quantitative RT-PCR and normalized to GAPDH. Asterisk indicates P < 0.05 compared to 5.5 mmol/l glucose. c The cells were stimulated with 15 mmol/l glucose for 0, 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 h. The mRNA of IL-1β was detected by quantitative RT-PCR and normalized to GAPDH to the 0 h group and expressed as the mean ± SE. * P < 0.05 compared to the 0 h group. d IL-1β protein in the supernatants of HMEC-1 cells after high-glucose treatment for indicated time points measured using ELISA. Asterisk indicates P < 0.05 compared to 5.5 mmol/l glucose
Article Snippet: After being blocked with 5 % nonfat milk for 1 h, the membrane were incubated with the following primary antibodies at 4 °C overnight: polyclonal rabbit anti-human TLR4 (1:500; Boster Wuhan, China), polyclonal rabbit anti-human MyD88 (1:100; Boster Wuhan, China) and monoclonal mouse anti-β-actin (1:100; Boster, Wuhan, China).
Techniques: Activation Assay, Expressing, Western Blot, Control, Quantitative RT-PCR, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay