HaCaT cells were starved in a serum‐free medium for 12 h before treatment and transfection. Next, HaCaT cells were exposed to different doses of etanercept (0, 5, 10, 20, 40, and 80 μg/ml; Shanghai Sunshine Guojian Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., China) for 24 h at 37˚C in 5% CO
2. To further examine the effects of etanercept in HaCaT cells, we constructed hyperproliferative psoriatic keratinocytes using LPS.
32 HaCaT cells were divided into Control (without treatment), LPS (HaCaT cells at a density of 1 × 10
5 cells/ml were treated with 10 μg/ml LPS for 24 h), LPS+5 μg/ml Etanercept (HaCaT cells at a density of 1 × 10
5 cells/ml were treated with 5 μg/ml etanercept for 6 h before LPS treatment), LPS + 40 μg/ml Etanercept (HaCaT cells at a density of 1 × 10
5 cells/ml were treated with 40 μg/ml etanercept for 6 h before LPS treatment), LPS+Etanercept+si‐HMGB1 (HaCaT cells at a density of 1 × 10
5 cells/ml were transfected with
siRNA‐HMGB1 and treated with 40 μg/ml etanercept for 6 h before LPS treatment), and LPS+Etanercept+HMGB1 (HaCaT cells at a density of 1 × 10
5 cells/ml were transfected with
pcDNA3.1‐HMGB1 and treated with 40 μg/ml etanercept for 6 h before LPS treatment). The plasmid
pcDNA3.1‐HMGB1 and
siRNA‐HMGB1 were purchased from GenePharma (Shanghai, China).
Lipofectamine™ 3000 reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) was used for transfection.
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