Figure 8.

Submandibular PKB, Bax and Bcl2 proteins content in the DEX rats. Western blot experiments for the phosphorylated (a) and total (b) serine-threonine kinase PKB, pro-apoptotic Bax (c) and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 (d) proteins in submandibular from the CTL and DEX rats. No differences were observed in the parotid p-PKB or total PKB, as well as with Bax content between the DEX and CTL rats. The figures are representative immunoblots performed at least five times on separate tissue extracts. Data are means ± SEM.