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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2010 Jun 19;56(2):406–416. doi: 10.1007/s10620-010-1296-0

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

α-Smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) expression is not decreased in MMP-2−/− mouse livers after chronic liver injury. Immunoblot analysis for α-SMA performed on protein (100 µg) extracted from MMP-2−/− and MMP-2+/+ livers following chronic CCl4. β-Actin used to normalize protein loading (a). Scanning densitometry comparing relative α-SMA expression, normalized to β-actin, in whole liver extract from MMP-2+/+ and MMP-2−/− mice (b) demonstrated no decrease in MMP-2−/− mice as compared with wild type (n = 3). Data represent means ± SEM