Stellate Cell Activation and Imbalanced Expression of TGF-β1/TGF-β3 in Acute Autoimmune Liver Lesions Induced by ConA in Mice

Figure 7

Protein expressions of TGF-β1 and TGF-β3 in liver of mice after ConA injection. At 8 h after ConA injection, TGF-β1 protein expression was significantly higher than that of the control group (). At 48 h after ConA injection, expression of TGF-β1 was significantly higher than that of the control group (). At 8 h after ConA injection, the relative expression of TGF-β3 was significantly higher compared with the control group (). At 48 h, TGF-β3 protein expression decreased to the level that was significantly lower than the control group ().

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