Journal: Neural Regeneration Research
Article Title: Lithium promotes recovery after spinal cord injury
doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.327348
Figure Lengend Snippet: Lithium attenuates inflammatory, oxidative, and pyroptotic injury in PC12 cells subjected to OGD . Con group: untreated PC12 cells; OGD group: PC12 cells subjected to OGD; OGD + LiCl group: PC12 cells subjected to OGD and treated with LiCl; OGD + LiCl + ATRA group: PC12 cells subjected to OGD and treated with LiCl and the Nrf2 inhibitor ATRA. (A–I) TNF-α (A), IL-1β (B), IL-6 (C), CAT (D), GSH-Px (E), LDH (F), SOD (G), MDA (H), and T-AOC (I) expression as detected by ELISA. (J–N) Flow cytometry analysis of the percentage of pyroptotic PC12 cells. Data are shown as mean ± SD ( n = 6). * P < 0.05, vs . control group; # P < 0.05, vs . OGD group; & P < 0.05, vs . OGD + LiCl group (one-way analysis of variance followed by least significant difference test). ATRA: All-trans retinoic acid; CAT: catalase; Con: control; GSH-Px: glutathione peroxidase; IL-1β: interleukin-1β; IL-6: interleukin-6; LiCl: lithium chloride; LPO: lipid peroxide; MDA: malondialdehyde; OGD: oxygen glucose deprivation; SOD: superoxide dismutase; T-AOC: total antioxidant capacity; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor-alpha.
Article Snippet: Subsequently, the membranes were incubated overnight at 4°C with rat monoclonal primary antibodies against IL-6 (1:1000, Acris Antibodies GmbH, Herford, Germany; Cat# SM1695PX, RRID:AB_1004115), IL-1β (1:100, Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany; Cat# 130-125-220, RRID:AB_2889697), TNF-α (1:100, Miltenyi Biotec; Cat# 130-102-386, RRID:AB_2661141), NLRP3 (1:1000, MyBioSource, San Diego, CA, USA; Cat# MBS604215, RRID:AB_10911109), ASC (1:2000, Gabriel Núñez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Cat# GN-ASC, RRID:AB_2750645), pro-Caspase-1 (1:1000, ProSci, San Diego, CA, USA; Cat# 48-495, RRID:AB_1945485), Caspase-1 (1:1000, Acris Antibodies GmbH; Cat# AP06610PU-N, RRID:AB_1611115), GSDMD (1:100, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Cat# A305-736A-M, RRID:AB_2782894), and IL-18 (1:100, DSHB, Iowa City, IA, USA; Cat# CPTC-IL18-2, RRID:AB_1553716), followed by incubation with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated rabbit anti-rat IgG (1:1000, Biorbyt, Cat# orb21564, RRID:AB_10932535) at 20°C for 1 hour, and finally stained with a diaminobenzidine solution.
Techniques: Expressing, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Flow Cytometry