Western analysis was performed as described previously (20 (link)). Cell lysates were prepared using complete lysis buffer (EMD Millipore, San Diego, CA) with protease and phosphatase inhibitor cocktails (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN). Protein quantification was performed using DC protein assay from Bio-Rad (Hercules, and CA). Western blot analysis was performed as described previously (21 (link),22 (link)). Antibodies used include stromelysin1 (cat. No. 14351-S) dilution 1:1,000 in milk, vascular endothelial cadherin (VE-cadherins; cat No. 2158) dilution 1:1,000 in BSA, P-P38 MAPK (cat No. 9112-S) dilution 1:1,000 in BSA, T-P38MAPK (cat No. 9212-S) dilution 1:1,000 in BSA, P-SRC Tyr-416 (cat No. 6943-S) dilution 1:1,000 in BSA and T-SRC (cat No. 2109-S) dilution 1:1,000 in BSA all from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA). β-actin (dilution in milk, primary antibodies 1:10,000 and secondary antibodies 1:20,000) from Sigma (St. Louis, MO) and Claudin-5 antibodies (cat No. ab15106) 1:1,000 and secondary antibodies 1:5,000 dilution in milk from Abcam (Cambridge, MA). Band densitometry was done using NIH Image J software.