Figure 1
From: Pulmonary arterial dysfunction in insulin resistant obese Zucker rats
Heart wall thickness and BMPR2 expression. (A) Left ventricular (LV), right ventricular (RV) and septal wall thickness from lean (n = 8) and obese (n = 7) Zucker rats. (B) BMPR2 mRNA expression in resistance PA of lean and obese (n = 5) analyzed by RT-PCR and normalized by β-actin expression. (C) BMPR2 precursor (~115 KDa) and mature (~75 KDa) protein expression from obese and lean Zucker lungs (n = 8) analyzed by Western blot and normalized by β-actin expression. Results indicate mean ± s.e.m.