Journal: Journal of Thoracic Disease
Article Title: Hepatocyte growth factor alleviates alcoholic cardiomyopathy through the Nrf2 pathway—a focus on iron metabolism
doi: 10.21037/jtd-2025-1111
Figure Lengend Snippet: Effects of HGF on proteins involved in iron metabolism. (A) Hepcidin mRNA expression was raised by ethanol stimulation and decreased by HGF treatment; (B,C) alterations in Fpn1, DMT1 and FTH1 caused by Nfe2l2 knockdown after HGF pretreatment detected by western blotting under ethanol exposure. **, P<0.01; ns, P>0.05. DMT1, divalent metal-ion transporter 1; Fpn1, ferroportin; FTH1, ferritin heavy chain 1; GAPDH, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase; HGF, hepatocyte growth factor; PBS, phosphate buffered saline; scramble, randomly interrupted sequence; siRNA, small interfering RNA.
Article Snippet: Recombinant rat HGF protein (P1779) was obtained from FineTest (Wuhan, China); rabbit polyclonal anti-rat Fpn1 (26601-1-AP), rabbit polyclonal anti-rat DMT1 (20507-1-AP), goat anti-mouse or anti-rabbit secondary antibodies and mouse monoclonal anti-β-actin from Proteintech (Wuhan, China); rabbit polyclonal anti-rat ferritin heavy chain (FTH1) (PA5-27500) from Thermofisher (Waltham, USA).
Techniques: Expressing, Knockdown, Western Blot, Saline, Sequencing, Small Interfering RNA