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. 2015 Oct 9;10(10):e0139756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139756

Fig 4. smPPARγOE decreased the transcripts of aortic smooth muscle contractile proteins and the smooth muscle transcriptional co-activator, myocardin.

Fig 4

mRNA levels of smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (myh11), alpha smooth muscle actin (acta2), caldesmon (cald1), and calponin (cnn1) were measured in aortas with qRT-PCR (A). mRNA levels of myocardin (myocd) are shown in (B). Each bar represents the mean ± SEM copies of each transcript normalized to ribosomal protein 9s (rps9) in the same sample and expressed as fold change vs control. n = 6. Mice 4–5 weeks post-tamoxifen. *p<0.05 using unpaired t-test.