. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2009 Oct 22;29(12):2083–2089. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.109.193227

Table 1.

Desmosine and hydroxyproline content (normalized to total protein) and relative intensity of immunoreactive fibrillin-1 (normalized to tissue area) in ascending aortae.

	WT	Fbn-1 ^+/−	Eln ^+/−	dHet
Desmosine (pm/mg protein)	2976 ± 250	2769 ± 698	1385 ± 326^*	1413 ± 399^$
Hydroxyproline (µg/mg protein)	31 ± 3	34 ± 5	34 ± 6	36 ± 4
Fibrillin-1 immunoreactivity (signal intensity/ µm² tissue)	22.66 ± 0.83^€	9.90 ± 6.34	20.61 ± 9.61	13.99 ± 1.83
Number of mice	5	4	6	6

p < 0.05 between Eln^+/− and WT or Fbn1^+/−

p < 0.05 between dHet and WT or Fbn1^+/−

^€

p < 0.05 between WT and Fbn1^+/− or dHet