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Total protein was extracted from the rat lung tissues and A549 cells using a total protein extraction kit (cat. no. E211-02; Vazyme, Inc., Nanjing, China). Protein concentrations were determined using a bicinchoninic acid kit (cat. no. P0010; Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Haimen, China). Protein samples (50 μg) were separated by 10% SDS-PAGE and then transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane (EMD Millipore Corp., Billerica, MA, USA). The nitrocellulose membrane was blocked with 3% bovine serum albumin (Amresco Inc., Solon, OH, USA) in Tris-buffered saline overnight at 4°C. After washing with phosphate-buffered saline, the membrane was incubated with the following primary antibodies: rabbit polyclonal anti-E-cadherin (cat. no. sc-7870; 1:800), mouse monoclonal anti-vimentin (cat. no. sc-373717; 1:400), rabbit polyclonal anti-TGF-β1 (cat. no. sc-146; 1:400), mouse monoclonal anti-Smad2 (cat. no. sc-101153; 1:200), all from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (Dallas, TX, USA), mouse monoclonal anti-α-smooth muscle actin (cat. no. BM0002; 1:500) or rabbit polyclonal anti-GAPDH (cat. no. BA2913; 1:2,000), both from Boster Biological Technology Ltd., (Wuhan, China), overnight at 4°C. The membrane was then incubated with the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled secondary antibody [goat anti-mouse immunoglobulin (Ig)G-HRP; sc-2005; 1:4,000) or goat anti-rabbit IgG-HRP (cat. no. sc-2004; 1:4,000; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.) for 2 h at room temperature. The immunoreactive proteins were detected using an enhanced chemiluminescence kit (cat. no. 32209; Pierce Biotechnolgy, Inc., Rockford, IL, USA). GAPDH was used as a loading control. Images of the blots were captured using a ScanJet 4C Flatbed Scanner (Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA, USA). Densitometric quantification was performed using Image-Pro Plus software (version 6.0; Media Cybernetics, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA).
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