Table 4.

Normalized mRNA expression in the tibiales anteriores of mice with one tibialis anterior electroporated with a GDF‐15 expression vector and the contralateral tibialis anterior electroporated with a control vector

Gene	cont (log normalized expression, AU)	SEM	GDF‐15 (log normalized expression, AU)	SEM	Paired t‐test
GDF‐15	−2.68	0.12	0.62	0.11	0.002
atrogin	−0.42	0.06	−0.54	0.06	0.109
murf	−0.77	0.05	−0.87	0.04	0.151
myhc2a	−0.28	0.17	−0.62	0.12	0.013
myhc2x	2.20	0.06	2.25	0.06	0.699
myhc 2b	1.60	0.07	1.42	0.08	0.144
myhc I	−1.80	0.16	−1.94	0.18	0.484
cyr61	−1.12	0.05	−1.28	0.04	0.049
CTGF	−1.40	0.04	−1.54	0.05	0.086
PAI‐1	−2.29	0.14	−2.32	0.07	0.867

GDF, growth differentiation factor.