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. 2018 Aug 10;9:1111. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01111

FIGURE 7.

FIGURE 7

ES treatment limits the increase in phosphorylation of p38 MAPK and mRNA expression of ubiquitin ligases in S-D muscles. (A) Representative Western blots illustrating the total and p-p38 MAPK (Thr180/Tyr182) of gastrocnemius muscles in control (CNT) and steroid-denervation (S-D) rats with or without ES treatment. (B) The expression levels of p-p38 MAPK was normalized to the total p38 MAPK. The expression levels of MuRF-1 (C) and atrogin-1 (D) mRNA were normalized to the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) mRNA and expressed as fold change of the mean CNT value, which was set to 1. Bars show the mean and SEM results from 5 to 6 muscles per group. P < 0.05 vs. CNT, #P < 0.05 vs. S-D.