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. 2008 Feb 21;118(3):868–878. doi: 10.1172/JCI33160

Figure 8. One week after the operation, rats with MI (n = 29) and those that underwent sham operation (n = 14) were treated with curcumin (50 mg/kg/d) or vehicle (1% gum arabic) for 6 weeks.

Figure 8

Echocardiographic studies were performed every 2 weeks. (A) Representative photographs of M-mode images from vehicle- and curcumin-treated MI rats at 7 weeks after the operation. (B–G) Values are mean ± SEM from 14 rats in the curcumin group and 15 rats in the vehicle group. #P < 0.005 vs. vehicle group; *P < 0.0001 vs. vehicle group. (B) LVEDD. (C) FS. (D) Diastolic PWT. (E) Body weight. (F) BP. (G) HR. (H–J) Results are expressed as mean ± SEM from 7 rats in each sham-operated group, 15 rats in the vehicle-treated MI group, and 14 rats in the curcumin-treated MI group. (J) Myocardial cell diameters in left ventricles were measured for at least 50 cells in each animal.