Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 3 pp 3405—3427
PTP1B inhibitor alleviates deleterious microglial activation and neuronal injury after ischemic stroke by modulating the ER stress-autophagy axis via PERK signaling in microglia
Figure 4. Microglial autophagy was mitigated by PTP1B inhibitor treatment after IR injury. (A) Western blot to detect the effect of PTP1B inhibitor (10 μM) on LC3-I/II and beclin-1 protein expression in the rat ipsilateral cortex 24 h after IR injury. (B, C) Quantitative results of relative band density are normalized to β-actin and presented as the mean ± SEM (n = 4 per group). (D) Immunofluorescence to detect GFP-LC3B puncta in GFP-LC3 expressing BV-2 cells. Scale bar = 200 μm. (E) Graph showing percentage of cells with GFP-LC3 puncta (presented as the mean ± SEM, n = 6 per group). *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 compared with vehicle group; sc = PTP1B inhibitor sc-222227; IR = ischemia/reperfusion; OGD/R = oxygen glucose deprivation/reoxygenation.