Fig. 4.

Semi-quantitative immunoblots of kidney protein prepared from cortex/OSOM of control and CCl₄-treated cirrhosis rats subdivided into group A or group B liver cirrhosis in protocol 1. In group A, protein abundance of αENaC was unchanged, while βENaC abundance was decreased compared with controls. The γENaC underwent a complex change associated with the increased abundance of 70 kDa band with a concomitant decrease in the main 85 kDa band. In contrast, there were no significant changes of ENaC subunit expression in group 2. ^*p<0.05 vs. control, ^#p<0.05 vs. group A (Kim et al., J Am Soc Nephrol 2005).