Fig. 5
From: Fibroblast growth factor-2 alleviates the capillary leakage and inflammation in sepsis
FGF2 protects the HPMECs permeability from LPS by stabilizing VE-cadherin and α-E-catenin. a The VE-cadherin and α-E-catenin was stained by cytofluorometry. The pictures are all shown at ×400 magnification. b The protein levels of intercellular connectivity VE-cadherin and α-E-catenin in HPMECs 6 h after LPS were evaluated by western blot and the relative densities were analyzed (n ≥ 3 per group, GAPDH was used as internal control). c HPMECs were seeded into the upper chamber of Transwell (0.4 μm) with different treatments for measuring the HRP condition (n ≥ 3 per group). Data are represented as mean ± SEM. * P < 0.05