Quercetin Attenuates Vascular Calcification through Suppressed Oxidative Stress in Adenine-Induced Chronic Renal Failure Rats

Figure 2

Histopathology of aorta. Control rat aorta shows normal structural arrangement (a, b), VC aorta shows patchy calcification occurring in medial layer vascular smooth muscle cell (c), and VC+ quercetin shows lower extent of calcification in medial layer vascular smooth muscle cell (d). The tissues were surgically excised and subjected to histological study by staining with Von Kossa and HE, respectively. All the magnification is 400x.

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