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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2010 Mar 4;49(2):210–220. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2010.02.021

Figure 6. Adenovirus mediated VEGF delivery reverses cardiac dysfunction in adiponectin deficient mice following pressure overload.

Figure 6

A, Representative images of CD31-stained heart sections from WT and KO mice treated with Ad-VEGF or Ad-βgal at 3 weeks after TAC in. Brown indicates CD31-positive endothelial cells, whereas light purple indicates nuclei in the hematoxylin stain. Magnification, ×400. B, Quantitative analysis of capillary density by measuring the number of CD31-positive cells per cardiomyocyte from each group. C, Echocardiographic analysis of the fractional shortening (FS) for WT and KO mice treated with Ad-VEGF or Ad-βgal at 3 weeks after TAC. Results are presented as mean ± SEM (n=4–7 per each group). *P<0.05 versus corresponding Ad-βgal treated mice and # P<0.05 versus corresponding WT mice.