Protective Effects of Astragalus Polysaccharide on Sepsis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury

Figure 6

APS ameliorates LPS-induced apoptosis in HK-2 cells. (a) The apoptosis rate of cells with LPS, APS, and LPS+APS in HK-2 cells by flow cytometry; (b) the levels of apoptosis-related protein including cleaved caspase-3, caspase-3, cleaved caspase-9, caspase-9, Bax, and Bcl-2 in cells treated with LPS, APS, and LPS+APS in HK-2 cells determined by Western blot, and GAPDH was used as an internal control protein to calculate the relative expression of proteins. Compared with the control group, , , and ; compared with the LPS group, ^#, ^##, and ^###.

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