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. 2007 Jul 17;8:60. doi: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-60

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Effects of food deprivation on CD36 expression in liver or skeletal muscle from male and female rats. mRNA expression of hepatic (A) or skeletal muscle (B) CD36 was quantified by real-time PCR in male and female rats after 4 or 12 hours of food deprivation (FD). Exon-specific primers were used to measure the mRNA abundance of specific regions of the transcript, which were normalized to the mRNA level of RPLP0 in liver and that of ARBP in muscle. Data are presented in relation to the expression level of the same transcript in male rats after 4 hours of FD. The obtained data were analyzed using Student's T-test and bars represent the mean ± S.E. Asterisks (*) indicate significant sex differences whereas circles (¤) indicate significant effects of starvation (p < 0.05) Protein expression of hepatic CD36 in male and female rats after 4 or 12 hours of FD using immunoblot (C).