Table 2.

Expression of genes known to promote cardiac β-oxidation as assessed by quantitative RT-PCR in control (lox/lox) and cTKO mice

	lox/lox* (n = 4)	cTKO* (n = 4)
Cytosolic acyl-CoA thioesterase (CTE1)	17830 ± 2720	8560 ± 1282
Medium-chain acycl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD)	527686 ± 10719	473164 ± 9966
Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase isoenzyme 4 (PDK4)	15288 ± 2084	9634 ± 1495
Cyclophilin control	28339 ± 3072	29469 ± 1398

^*Numbers represent transcript copies ± SE; Cyclophilin was run as the control housekeeping gene.