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. 2021 Mar 11;2021:6669352. doi: 10.1155/2021/6669352

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Quantification of TGF-β1 (a) and αSMA (b) protein levels of kidney homogenates from the ALA-treated or nontreated, control, and diabetic rats, 4 and 8 weeks after diabetes induction, detected by Western blot analysis. The densities of the bands from three immunoblots (representative blots shown in Supplementary material, Figure S1) are presented as the mean ± SD after normalization to GAPDH. “” indicates statistically significant difference compared to the control group (p < 0.05, ∗∗p < 0.01, and ∗∗∗p < 0.001), “#” indicates statistically significant difference compared to the ALA group (#p < 0.05, ##p < 0.01, and ###p < 0.001), “δ” indicates statistically significant difference compared to the STZ group of animals (δp < 0.05, δδp < 0.01, and δδδp < 0.001).