Fig. 5

Effect of S. thermophilus lysate on β-catenin and PPARγ expression in TGF-β1-activated NHDF. A β-catenin and B PPARγ protein expressions were evaluated on NHDF incubated as above described, by western blot analysis. Following densitometric analysis, obtained values were normalized vs. GAPDH. Values are expressed as mean ± SEM of two independent experiments in duplicate. For comparative analysis of data, a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc Tukey test was used (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 vs. CNTR; §§ P < 0.01, §§§ P < 0.001 vs. TGF-β1). Representative images of immunoblotting for β-catenin, PPARγ, and GAPDH are shown