Figure 10.
Prostate collagen IV immunofluorescence in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, control (C), diabetic rats (D), zingerone treated rats (DZ), geraniol treated rats (DR), and 6-gingerol treated rats (DG). The primary chicken polyclonal antitransforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFβ1) and the mouse monoclonal anti-collagen I antibody and the secondary Alexa Fluor (λex = 555 and λex = 488, resp.) conjugated goat anti-chicken and goat anti-mouse were used (data are expressed as mean ± SE of the mean; ∗p < 0.05 in comparison to controls (C); #p < 0.05 in comparison to diabetic rats (D)).