Fuzheng Huayu Recipe Ameliorates Liver Fibrosis by Restoring Balance between Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition in Hepatic Stellate Cells

Figure 1

Characterization of HSCs isolated from rat liver. (a, b) Cell morphology of quiescent (a) and activated HSCs (b) (400x). (c, d) Oil Red O staining of quiescent (c) and activated HSCs (d) (400x). (e, f) Immunocytochemistry staining of quiescent (e) and activated HSCs for α-SMA (f) (400x). (g) Real-time PCR for ALB, α-SMA, CD31, CD68, CK-19, and desmin, respectively, demonstrated the purity of quiescent and activated HSCs. compared with quiescent HSCs.

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