Figure 3.

The effects of ischemic preconditioning on pulmonary heat-shock protein expression after small-for-size liver transplantation. Lungs were harvested 38 h after liver transplantation. HSPs and actin were measured by immunoblotting. Representative immunoblots are shown in (A). Densitometric quantification of HSP27, HSP32, HSP60, HSP72 and HSP90 immunoblots is shown in (B-F), respectively. Sham, lungs from sham-operated rats; FSG, lungs from full-size graft recipients; QSG, lungs from quarter-size graft recipients; QSG + IP, lungs from ischemic-preconditioned quarter-size graft recipients. Values are means ± SEM. Group sizes were 4 per group. a, P<0.05 vs sham operation; b, P<0.05 vs FSG; c, P<0.05 vs QSG.