Fig. 3.

Phenotyping of heterogeneous stock (HS) abdominal aorta (AA) and left iliac artery (LIA) for RIEL. A: en face preparations of male AA and LIA. RIEL appear as dark blue transverse bands (arrows). B: box plot comparing RIEL numbers in HS rats of both sexes. Larger numbers of lesions were observed in males than in females. The box contains the middle 50% of the data, and the line within the box shows the median. The line above the box represents the 90th percentile, and the points above this, the values >90th percentile. As there are so many rats with 0 values, the lower 25th percentile coincides with the box bottom (n = 454 HS males and 548 HS females).