To determine the mRNA expression of the cells (HDFs, HaCaTs, and HAECs) treated with TGFβ1 (10 ng mL−1) or TGFβ1 (10 ng mL−1)/PTβR2I (10 µg mL−1) under high glucose conditions, RNA was extracted using Trizol (Invitrogen) and reverse transcribed using a cDNA synthesis kit (Applied Biosystems). Gene expression was performed by real-time RT-PCR, using Maxima SYBR Green/Fluorescein Master Mix (Thermofisher) and selected primer pairs (Supplementary Table 1). β-actin served as the housekeeping gene. The ΔΔCt method was used for data analysis73 (link),127 .
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