Figure 7.
Treatment with PP1–12 attenuates ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury-induced myocardial apoptosis. TUNEL assay (x400 magnification) on (A) sham-operated, (B) I/R (vehicle-treated,. DMSO), (C) I/R + S1 (1 mg/kg/day), (D) I/R + S3 (3 mg/kg/day) and (E) I/R + S10 (10 mg/kg/day) groups. (F) Mean percentage of apoptotic cells (apoptotic index) for the same groups. I/R + S1, S3 and S10, I/R treated with 1, 3 and 10 mg/kg/day PP1–12, respectively. Results are shown as the means ± SD. *P<0.05 vs. the sham-operated group; #P<0.05 vs. the I/R (vehicle-treated, DMSO) group. Black arrows indicate the TUNEL-positive cells.