Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
Article Title: Angiopoietin-1 prevents severe bleeding complications induced by heparin-like drugs and fibroblast growth factor-2 in mice
doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00373.2015
Figure Lengend Snippet: PPS did not affect the expression of metalloproteinases or VEGF-A in the intestine of mice infected with rAd-LacZ. A: representative pictures of the Western blots done with samples derived from the small intestinal of mice infected with rAd-LacZ vectors and treated with PPS (60 mg/kg) or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). Only the intestinal expression of ICAM-1 was significantly increased in mice treated with rAd-LacZ + PPS relative to the control mice infected with rAd-LacZ (*P < 0.05; n = 6 samples per group). B: the densitometric analysis corresponding to the Western blots. Results are expressed in arbitrary optical density units as ratio of the beta-actin expression (means ± SE). Samples from 6 different mice were included in each group.
Article Snippet: Recombinant adenoviral (rAd) vectors. rAd-vectors carrying either the Escherichia coli LacZ gene (rAd-Lac-Z), a 700-bp cDNA sequence encoding a secreted form of human recombinant FGF-2 (rAd-FGF-2), or a genetically modified form of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1*) from Regeneron Pharm (Tarrytown, NY), were generated, amplified, and purified as previously described ( 13 , 21 , 44 , 50 ).
Techniques: Expressing, Infection, Western Blot, Derivative Assay, Saline, Control