Figure 3
From: Pharmacological HIF-inhibition attenuates postoperative adhesion formation
YC-1 attenuates pro-inflammatory differentiation of macrophages. (a,b) qRT-PCR analyses, revealing mRNA expression of the pro-inflammatory M1-differentiation markers NOS2 (a) and IL-6 (b) in murine J774A.1 macrophages under normoxia (left bars) and hypoxia (right bars). LPS exposure was carried out to induce M1-polarization in presence of YC-1 or vehicle control (DMSO; **P ≤ 0.01, n = 9). (c,d) Western blots of nuclear extracts, revealing protein levels of HIF-1α (c) and HIF-2α (d) in J774.A1 macrophages treated with vehicle (DMSO) or YC-1 under normoxic (left) or hypoxic (right) culture conditions. Simultaneous LPS-treatment was performed to induce pro-inflammatory activation. Note LPS-induced stabilization of HIF-1α- (c), but not HIF-2α-levels (d), and reversal of LPS-induced HIF-1α-stabilization by YC-1 (c). Histone H3 was used as a loading control. (e,f) qRT-PCR analyses, revealing mRNA expression of the pro-inflammatory M1-differentiation markers NOS2 (e) and IL-6 (f) in BMDMs under normoxia (left bars) and hypoxia (right bars). LPS exposure was carried out to induce M1-polarization in presence of YC-1 or vehicle control (DMSO; ***P ≤ 0.001, **P ≤ 0.01, n = 6).
