Immunofluorescence staining was performed to assess the expression of AQP2 and caspase-1. For frozen-section immunofluorescence staining, sections were fixed, blocked and then stained with the primary antibodies AQP2 (1:500, PAA580Hu01; Cloud-Clone Corp., Wuhan, China) and caspase-1 (1:100, PAB592Hu01; Cloud-Clone Corp.). The fluorescent secondary antibodies were fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled goat anti-rabbit immunoglobulin G (1:500, A0562; Beyotime Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Haimen, Jiangsu, China) and 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (C1002; Beyotime Biotechnology Co., Ltd.). Sections were then mounted with anti-fade mounting medium (Abcam Co., Ltd, Cambridge, MA, USA).
FAM-FLICA kits (ICT098; ImmunoChemistry Technologies LLC., Bloomington, MN, USA) were utilized to conduct FAM-YVAD-FMK/Hoechst/propidium iodide (PI) staining according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Images were collected using a fluorescence microscope.