Research Article

The Antitumor Potential of Extract of the Oak Bracket Medicinal Mushroom Inonotus baumii in SMMC-7721 Tumor Cells

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EIB inhibited the SMMC-7721 tumor growth in xenograft nude mice and mediated the expression of related proteins in tumor tissue. (a) EIB decreased the tumor size after 12 days of treatment, . (b) EIB inhibited the tumor volume during the treatment. (c) EIB inhibited the tumor weight gain. (d) The body weight in each group. (e) EIB mediated the expression of apoptosis and autophagy-related proteins in tumor tissue in western analysis, . (f) Densitometric quantification of the ration of Bcl-2/Bax, cleaved caspase-3/β-actin, and LC3-II/LC3-I. (g) Tumor sections stained with H&E for the histological examination, with TUNEL for the apoptosis analyses, and immunohistochemical analysis of the LC3 for the autophagy analyses. versus control.
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