Fig. 4
From: Role of human rhinovirus in triggering human airway epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Effects of exposure for 120 h to HRV-16 alone, TGF-β1 alone, and the combination on morphology of BEAS-2B cells. BEAS-2B cells were stimulated with medium, HRV-16, TGF-β1, and HRV-16 + TGF-β1 for 120 h. Light microscopy images (4X magnification) showing representative morphology of cells exposed to a medium. b HRV-16 alone. c TGF-β1 alone. d The combination of HRV-16 + TGF-β1. Data are from one of 3 experiments used for quantitative analysis. e Quantitative analysis of percentage of cells with fibroblast-like morphology (mean ± SEM from 3 experiments). Asterisk indicates significance for comparisons shown by Dunn’s post-hoc analysis after Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA