Journal: Chinese Medicine
Article Title: Combination of mangiferin and T0901317 targeting autophagy promotes cholesterol efflux from macrophage foam cell in atherosclerosis
doi: 10.1186/s13020-023-00876-9
Figure Lengend Snippet: Treatment of T0 and MGF activates expression of LXR target molecules in macrophage and inhibits foam cell formation. A Peritoneal macrophages collected from mice were stained with Oil Red O or anti-bodipy antibody (green) to evaluate formation of foam cells (> 10 lipid droplets per cell, > 10 fields per sample), scale bar, 20 μm; and cholesterol contents were measured. *** p < 0.001, n = 3. Expression of ( B ) ABCA1 and ( C ) ABCG1 (stained with red fluorescent color) was determined by immunofluorescent staining of aortic root cross sections from Apoe −/− mice and quantified by a computer-assisted image analysis protocol. Scale bar, 100 μm. ** p < 0.01, n = 3. Expression of ABCA1, ABCG1, LXRα and CD36 in cultured peritoneal macrophages ( D ) and RAW264.7 cells ( E ) was determined by western blot with total proteins extracted from cell samples. *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05 (n = 3)
Article Snippet: Primary rabbit polyclonal antibodies against ABCA1 (ab18180), ABCG1 (ab218528), LC3 (ab192890), SREBP-1c (ab28481), FAS (ab133619), and β-actin (ab8227) were purchased from Abcam (Cambridge, MA, USA).
Techniques: Expressing, Staining, Cell Culture, Western Blot