Fig. 1.
Effects of long-standing spinal cord injury (SCI) on skeletal muscle proinflammatory/atrophy gene expression. A: shown are relative fold differences (i.e., 2−ΔΔCT) in SCI compared with able-bodied (AB) vastus lateralis (VL) muscle at baseline, with error bars representing relative quantification (2−ΔΔCT) minimum and maximum; n = 11 in each group. B: ΔCT mean values in SCI vs. AB VL muscle. Dot plot represents the complete data set, and median values are indicated by central rectangles; n = 11. *P < 0.05, different from AB. TNFαR, TNFα receptor; IL-6R, IL-6 receptor; TWEAK, TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis; TWEAK R, TWEAK receptor; MuRF1, muscle RING finger 1; ATROGIN-1, muscle atrophy F-box before MuRF1.