Published customer image: . Hamster anti mouse CD81 antibody, clone Eat2 ( MCA1846 ) used for the evaluation of CD81 expression in RAW264.7 lysates by western blotting. Image caption: . Fluvastatin and simvastatin increase CD9 and CD81 levels in RAW264.7 cells. (A) RAW264.7 cells were cultured for 24 h in the absence or presence of increasing concentrations of fluvastatin (Fluv) or simvastatin (Simv). The cells were lysed, and levels of CD9, CD63, and CD81 were examined by immunoblotting. Anti-actin blots show that comparable amounts of protein were loaded in each lane. (B) RAW264.7 cells were untreated (-) or cultured in the absence or presence of increasing concentrations of fluvastatin or simvastatin and stimulated for 24 h with 0.1 µg/ml LPS (+). Levels of CD9, CD63, and CD81 were examined by immunoblotting. Note that LPS downregulates CD9 and CD81 in the absence of statins (arrowheads). (C) RAW264.7 cells were cultured in the absence (-) or presence of 3 µM fluvastatin (+), and unstimulated (-) or stimulated for 24 h with 1 µg/ml LPS (+). mRNA levels of CD9 and CD81 were examined by reverse transcription PCR. GAPDH is an internal loading control. (D) RAW264.7 cells were cultured in the absence or presence of fluvastatin, and unstimulated or stimulated with LPS. Control (Cont) was an untreated culture. mRNA levels of CD9 and CD81 were examined by real-time PCR. Data shown are from one representative of three similar experiments. (E) Human monocytic THP-1 cells were treated for 4 h with 1 µg/ml phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, allowed to attach to a plate, and then cultured in the absence or presence of increasing concentrations of simvastatin. Levels of CD9, CD63, and CD81 were examined by immunoblotting. (F) Mouse 3T3 fibroblasts were cultured in the absence or presence of increasing concentrations of simvastatin. Levels of CD9, CD63, and CD81 were examined by immunoblotting. From: Jin Y, Tachibana I, Takeda Y, He P, Kang S, et al . (2013). Statins Decrease Lung Inflammation in Mice by Upregulating Tetraspanin CD9 in Macrophages. PLoS ONE 8(9): e73706 . This is from an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License .