Fig. 4From: Lithium protects dopaminergic cells from rotenone toxicity via autophagy enhancementCo-treatment with autophagy inhibitors depressed lithium induced autophagy in SH-SY5Y cells. The cells were treated with autophagy-related drugs at various concentrations for 24 h. The induction of autophagy was determined by measuring the LC3 protein levels using immunoblotting assay with antibody against LC3 (b). β-actin was used as an equal loading of proteins. The ratio of LC3B-II/I was evaluated by densitometric analysis and data were expressed (a). *P < 0.05 as compared with Con group (n = 6 in each group)Back to article page