Treatments	Hypertrophy Markers(% of control)			Apoptosis Markers (% of control)
	Total protein/cell No.	ANP mRNA	α-sk actin mRNA	Caspase 3/7 Activity	Viable cell number
rhCTGF (500 ng/mL)	183 ± 22*	145 ± 16*	129 ± 10*	179 ± 12*	79 ± 8*
Glucose (30 mM)	148 ± 24*	340 ± 43*	201 ± 27*	228 ± 5.0*	79 ± 2*
Palmitate (50 μM)	165 ± 29*	161 ± 23*	155 ± 18*	192 ± 19*	68 ± 5*
Palmitate (100 μM)	397 ± 7.0*	143 ± 24	189 ± 39*	262 ± 49*	53 ± 5*
Glucose (30 mM) + CTGF SiRNA	114 ± 16+	ND	ND	156.3 ± 17+	88 ± 8+
Palmitate (50 μM) + CTGF SiRNA	107 ± 1.8+	ND	ND	123.5 ± 35+	98 ± 7+