Table 7.

Western blot analysis of MAPKs and MPK-1 protein levels from atrial tissues

	Sham	AF-Control	Ad-EGFP	Ad-ACE2	p*	p #	p ♂
ERK1/2	1.81 ± 0.43	3.33 ± 0.67	3.46 ± 1.15	2.26 ± 0.89	<0.01	<0.01	<0.05
p-ERK1/2	1.21 ± 0.43	2.56 ± 0.63	2.78 ± 0.63	1.71 ± 0.69	<0.001	<0.001	<0.05
P38MAPK	1.77 ± 0.54	3.10 ± 0.45	3.10 ± 0.75	2.13 ± 0.68	<0.01	0.011	<0.05
MKP-1	0.82 ± 0.08	0.38 ± 0.20	0.35 ± 0.18	0.90 ± 0.39	<0.01	<0.01	<0.001

* Sham vs. AF-control; ^# Sham vs. Ad-EGFP; ^♂ Ad-ACE2 vs. Ad-EGFP (or AF-control), n = 7