Figure 5. Effects of denervation-induced muscle atrophy on expression of genes in the VEGF signaling pathway. (A) KEGG pathway analysis of the VEGF signaling pathway in denervation-induced muscle atrophy. Asterisks (*) indicate genes having significantly decreased expression in denervated limbs (DEN) relative to that of sham-operated limbs, which was set to a relative expression level of 1. (B) Relative expression level of genes with decreased expression.
KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes; VEGF: vascular endothelial growth factor