Research Article
p66Shc Mediates Mitochondrial Dysfunction Dependent on PKC Activation in Airway Epithelial Cells Induced by Cigarette Smoke
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Pretreatments with PKCβ and PKCδ inhibitors ameliorated CSE-induced mitochondrial damage of airway epithelial cells. Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) was observed by confocal microscopy (a), and mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) was determined by flow cytometry (b). Quantitative analysis showed that pretreatments with LY333531 and rottlerin reduced mitochondrial ROS content (c) and increased the levels of MMP (d) and intracellular ATP (e) in Bease-2b cells stimulated with 7.5% CSE for 24 h. All the results are shown as the mean ± SD from three independent experiments. versus the control group and versus the 7.5% CSE-treated group.
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