Fig. 7

Uterine expression of genes associated with HTR8 cell apoptosis in vitro. a Immunohistochemical images showing the expression of SCD1, CPT1A, ACOT2, and Caspase-3 in vivo (×20 magnification). The positive area was stained in brown. b–e Quantitative analysis and comparison of ACOT2, Caspase-3, CPT1A, and SCD1 between different observation time points. Comparing with the uterine expression of specific genes at 0 h, the expression of CPT1A, ACOT2, and Caspase-3 increased at 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 h time points, whereas SCD1 decreased. The differences were compared using one-way ANOVA followed by SNK post-hoc test. *P < 0.05