Figure 28
From: Redox mechanisms in hepatic chronic wound healing and fibrogenesis
Intracellular generation of ROS in human HSC/MFs exposed to PDGF-BB or to hydrogen peroxide. Detection of intracellular generation of ROS was performed by using the conversion of 2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) probe in human HSC/MFs. Experimental conditions included control cells and cells treated with PDGF-BB (10 ng/ml) or H2O2 (50 μM, positive control) for 15 minutes. Cells were observed and photographed under a Zeiss fluorescence microscope equipped with phase contrast objectives. Images of the same fields were collected and images in the right column offer, for all conditions, the overlay of fluorescence and phase contrast images (E Novo et al, unpublished data).