Table 2.

Quantitative densitometric Western blot analysis of the pro-apoptotic bax and the anti-apoptotic bcl-2 per ß-actin protein expression in soleus muscle tissue

	bax/ß-actin		bcl-2/ß-actin		bax/ß-actin to bcl-2/ß-actin ratio
Day	Control	z-VAD	Control	z-VAD	Control	z-VAD
4	0.57 ± 0.03	0.56 ± 0.06	0.47 ± 0.06	0.50 ± 0.08	1.31 ± 0.18	1.18 ± 0.14
14	0.68 ± 0.05	0.74 ± 0.05	0.61 ± 0.09	0.63 ± 0.08	1.22 ± 0.16	1.25 ± 0.15

Animals underwent muscle injury and treatment with DMSO as vehicle solution (control) or pan-caspase inhibitor z-VAD.fmk (z-VAD). Analysis was performed at day 4 and 14 after injury. Data are given as mean ± SEM; n = 6 per time point and group; t-test; no statistical significances were found