Fig. 8

Knockdown of Stard5 promotes migration and invasion of HCC cells. a. Representative image of western blot showing the effect of stard5 downregulation on the EMT pathway. b–d. Wound-healing and transwell assays were used to determine the migration (b, c) and invasion (d) abilities of the referred HCC stable cells. Scale bar, 50 μm. Quantification of the relative area or relative number of cells (b-d, right panel) was performed by ImageJ. **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001