Research Article

Reinforced Epithelial Barrier Integrity via Matriptase Induction with Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Did Not Result in Disturbances in Physiological Redox Status

Figure 4

Immunofluorescence staining of occludin (in red) in control and in S1P (200 ng/mL) and suramin (50 μM)-treated IPEC-J2 cells after 48 hr treatment. Occludin can be seen in red and cell nuclei were stained with DAPI in blue. S1P-induced more intensive occludin staining in cell membranes, which was indicated by white arrows. In case of suramin administration, occludin shows more diffuse distribution pattern compared to that in control panel. 600x magnification.