Figure 5From: Pulmonary vasoreactivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats - Effects of endothelin-1 and leptinExpression of genes implicated in the endothelin-1 and nitric oxide signaling pathways. Relative gene expressions of the preproendothelin-1 (PPET-1, A), the endothelin converting enzyme-1 (ECE-1; B), the endothelin receptor type A (ETA; C), the endothelin receptor type B (ETB; D) and the endothelial (eNOS; E) and the inducible (iNOS; F) nitric oxide synthase in thoracic aorta and pulmonary artery from control Wistar rats and from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Results are expressed as means ± SEM. $ 0.01 < p < 0.05 compared to the corresponding artery from the control group; ♯ 0.01 < p < 0.05, ♯♯ 0.001 < p < 0.01 compared to the thoracic artery in the same strain of rats.Back to article page