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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2013 Apr 17;184(1):365–373. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.03.089

Figure 5. Vascularity associated gene expression.

Figure 5

Mucosally-derived mRNA expression of several vascularization-associated control genes were studied with RT-PCR and expressed as a ratio to 18S RNA. Note that the abundance of each of these factors rose in the PEG stretch group. Interestingly, the addition of GLP-2 actually led to a reduction of these values for FGF1 and FGF2. The only significant change was the expression of PDGF between the PEG stretch and Control groups (p<0.05). Other changes were not statistically different between these two groups (VEGF; p=0.20, FGF1; p=0.18, FGF2; p=0.55). Values are means ± SEM.