Fig. 6

Statin-Dex upregulates the expression of Aire in the thymus. a Frozen tissue sections of thymus were stained with antibodies to Aire (green) and UEA-1 (red) to examine the expression of Aire in mTEC. b Aire expression analysis in the thymus by western blot (**p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001). Data were presented as mean ± SEM (n = 5 in the control group; n = 6 in DMSO-Dex and statin-Dex groups). The significance of the differences was evaluated by ANOVA, followed by Bonferroni test as a post hoc test