Table 3.

Summary of tissue mRNA and protein densitometry data

	Non-Pregnant (NP) (Densitometric value ± SEM)	Pregnant not in labour (PNL) (Densitometric value ± SEM)	Pregnant in labour (PL) (Densitometric value ± SEM)
Ghrelin mRNA (Figure 1)	0.733 ± 0.171	0.761 ± 0.058	0.164 ± 0.018
Ghrelin protein (Figure 2)
Prepro-ghrelin (i)	0.655 ± 0.094	0.557 ± 0.022	0.375 ± 0.049
Pro-ghrelin (ii)	0.349 ± 0.070	0.301 ± 0.039	0.352 ± 0.075
Ghrelin (iii)	0.574 ± 0.061	0.457 ± 0.054	0.300 ± 0.091
Ghrelin protein (Figure 3)
Prepro-ghrelin (i)	1.578 ± 0.441	1.280 ± 0.092	0.521 ± 0.050
Pro-ghrelin (ii)	0.304 ± 0.068	0.677 ± 0.151	1.162 ± 0.421
GHS-R1 protein (Figure 4)	0.524 ± 0.053	0.589 ± 0.040	0.364 ± 0.054
GOAT protein (Figure 5)	0.428 ± 0.040	0.740 ± 0.073	0.311 ± 0.051
PC1/3 protein (Figure 6)	0.174 ± 0.049	0.061 ± 0.005	0.038 ± 0.004