Journal: Molecular Medicine Reports
Article Title: Cigarette smoke combined with Klebsiella pneumoniae induce damage to the air-blood barrier in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rats via the MAPK/NF-κB/IκBα pathway
doi: 10.3892/mmr.2026.13797
Figure Lengend Snippet: Injury of mucus hypersecretion and oxidative damage in all groups. (A) AB-PAS staining images of the airway in all groups (AB-PAS; ×200 magnification and ×400 magnification). Arrows indicate goblet cells. (B) The expression level of MUC5AC and MUC5B in the airway tested using immunohistochemistry (×200 magnification). (C) The expression of IL-6, IL-10, TNF-α, T-SOD, MDA, MMP-9 and TIMP-1 in lung tissue and serum of rats in all groups. The values are expressed as mean ± SE; (n=8). *P<0.05 and **P<0.01 vs. normal group. AB-PAS, Alcian blue-periodic acid-schiff; MUC5AC, mucoprotein-5AC; MUC5B, mucoprotein-5B; T-SOD, total superoxide dismutase; MDA, malondialdehyde; MMP-9, matrix metalloproteinase 9; TIMP-1, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases 2; IOD, integrated optical density.
Article Snippet: The secretion of IL-6 (Rat IL-6 ELISA Kit; cat. no. E-EL-R0015; Elabscience Bionovation Inc.), IL-10 (Rat IL-10 ELISA Kit; cat. no. E-EL-R0016; Elabscience Bionovation Inc.), malondialdehyde (MDA) (MDA assay kit; cat. no. A003-1-2; Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute), total superoxide dismutase (T-SOD) (SOD assay kit; cat. no. A001-3-2; Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute), MMP-9 (Rat MMP-9 ELISA Kit; cat. no. E-EL-R3021; Elabscience Bionovation Inc.) and tissue Inhibitors of metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP-1 ELISA Kit; cat. no. E-EL-R0540; Elabscience Bionovation Inc.) in the lung tissue homogenate was measured using ELISA kits, following the manufacturer's instructions.
Techniques: Staining, Expressing, Immunohistochemistry