Fig. 6
From: Role of human rhinovirus in triggering human airway epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Viral replication is not essential for HRV-16 alone, or in combination with TGF-β1, to alter expression of epithelial and mesenchymal markers in BEAS-2B cells. BEAS-2B cells were stimulated with medium, HRV-16, TGF-β1, HRV-16 + TGF-β1, UV-HRV-16, or UV-HRV-16 + TGF-β1 for 120 h. a Representative western blot for E-cadherin. b Densitometry analysis for E-cadherin (n = 12). c Representative western blot for fibronectin. d Densitometry analysis for fibronectin (n = 12). Asterisk indicates significance for comparisons shown by Dunn’s post-hoc analysis after Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA. Hatchmark indicates synergy compared to the sum of responses to individual stimuli by Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed ranks test