Figure 8
From: Hypoxia-mediated apoptosis in oral carcinoma cells occurs via two independent pathways
Prevention of hypoxia-stimulated caspase activities by intracellular caspase inhibitors. The 686Tu (open bars) and 686Ln (closed bars) cells were grown under hypoxia for 48 hours in the presence of different cell-permeable caspase inhibitors, and caspase activities were assayed as described in Materials & Methods. A: caspase-3 activity; B: caspase-8 activity; C: caspase-9 activity. The vertical dashed columns represent cell growth in the presence of the following caspase inhibitors: z-DEVD-fmk, caspase-3; z-VAD-fmk, pan-caspase; z-LEHD-fmk, caspase-9; z-IETD-fmk, caspase-8. The means ± S. D. of three independent experiments are shown.