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From: Saturated fatty acid palmitate-induced insulin resistance is accompanied with myotube loss and the impaired expression of health benefit myokine genes in C2C12 myotubes

Figure 2

Palmitate induced C2C12 myotube loss. Myotubes were treated with palmitate or/and oleate for 24 hours. (A) Photographs were taken before (light) or after (crystal violet staining) 1% crystal violet staining under a phase contrast microscope; (B) The number of myotubes per photograph was counted after crystal violet staining (n=9). (C) The transcription of myogenin, MHC1, MHC2b and MCK genes was measured by qRT-PCR. The values were monitored by 18S and expressed as mean±SEM (n=3). (D) Photographs were taken like (A), and the number of myotubes per photograph was counted. *p<0.05, **p<0.01 vs. CTL. PA, palmitate; OL, oleate; CTL, control.

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Lipids in Health and Disease

ISSN: 1476-511X