Table 9.

Real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis of fibrosis-related indicators

	Sham	AF-control	Ad-EGFP	Ad-ACE2	p*	p #	p ♂
TGF-β1	1.00 ± 0.00	2.37 ± 0.98	2.27 ± 0.41	1.29 ± 0.45	<0.001	<0.001	<0.01
Col1-α2	1.00 ± 0.00	4.23 ± 0.77	4.60 ± 0.93	1.56 ± 0.31	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Col4-α5	1.00 ± 0.00	3.14 ± 0.54	2.93 ± 0.81	1.11 ± 0.31	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

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