Fig. 1.
FGF-16 mRNA expression during the perinatal and postnatal period in rat heart. Total RNA from late embryonic days (E19, E20); postnatal days (D1, D7, and D14); as well as 8-wk-old adult hearts (8W) were reverse transcribed into cDNA, followed by real-time PCR using platinum Taq DNA polymerase and gene-specific primers for FGF-16 and GAPDH; all FGF-16 values were normalized to GAPDH expression. Data are means ± SE. Values for E19 and E20 are (16.46 ± 7.189) × 10−3 and (17.90 ± 3.855) × 10−3, respectively. **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001, compared with E19; #P < 0.05, compared with D7 (n ≥ 3) by one-way ANOVA with the Bonferroni posttest for selected multiple comparisons.