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The rats were sacrificed by exsanguination and the corneas harvested from the treated eyes were dissected and frozen at −70°C, then homogenized in ice-cold RIPA lysis buffer solution (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Following centrifugation for 5 min at 12,000 × g, the supernatants were collected and the protein concentrations were determined using the Bradford reagent (Sigma-Aldrich Chemie GmbH, Steinheim, Germany). Equal quantities of protein (15 µg/lane) from the cell lysates were separated using 8–15% sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.). Membranes were incubated for 2 h in phosphate-buffered saline plus 0.1% Tween-20 and 5% non-fat skim milk to block non-specific binding. The membranes were then incubated overnight at 4°C with the following antibodies: Goat monoclonal anti-mouse VEGF (1:2,000; sc-7269; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), goat monoclonal anti-mouse VEGF receptor (VEGFR)-1 (1:3,000; 4762; Sigma-Aldrich), goat monoclonal anti-mouse VEGFR-2 (1:1,000; 3817; Cell Signaling Technology, Danvers, MA, USA.), goat monoclonal anti-mouse matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 (1:2,000; sc-21733; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), and goat monoclonal anti-mouse β-actin (1:10,000; sc-47778; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), which was used as a loading control. Subsequently, the membranes were incubated with the anti-mouse horseradish peroxidase-conjugated immunoglobulin G (1:10,000; sc-2005; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), and protein bands were visualized using a SuperSignal chemiluminescence detection kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Rockford, Illinois, USA).
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