Research Paper Volume 7, Issue 1 pp 70—81
Role of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in vascular endothelial aging: Interaction with Arginase-II and S6K1 signaling pathway
Figure 3. Overexpression of Arg-II in young endothelial cells activates p38 and enhances secretion of IL-6 and IL-8.
HUVECs were transduced with rAd empty vector as a control or rAd/CMV-Arg-II. Forty eight hours post transduction, cells were serum-starved overnight. Cell culture conditioned medium was collected for ELISA and cell extracts were subjected to immunoblotting. (A) Immunoblotting analysis of phsopho-p38-Thr180/Tyr182 (p38) and total-p38 (p38). (B) Cytokine secretion was determined by ELISA with collected conditioned medium. n=4, *p<0.05, ***p<0.001 vs control group (Con).