About 50 mg of frozen tissue was homogenized for protein isolation. Aliquots of the homogenates were stored at −20 °C until further use for Western blot analysis. Protein isolation and Western blot analysis were implemented as described previously [25 (link)]. Western blot was performed utilizing commercially available antibodies for CXCL1, CXCL8 (R & D systems, Wiesbaden, Germany), and Stat 3 (Cell Science, Cologne, Germany) utilizing ECL reagent. The quantification of p-STAT-3 was performed by densitometric analysis using ImageJ software.
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