Fig. 5: HBx induced collagen crosslinking.
Top: Images of collagen I that were incubated with conditioned media from MHCC97L-NTC, -shHBx-01, and shHBx-02 cells that were exposed to 20 and 1% O2 for 48 h under scanning electron microscope (SEM). Bottom: Width of collagen fibers were quantitated in more than 15 microscopic fields. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, Student’s t test
