Dietary Restriction Ameliorates Diabetic Nephropathy through Anti-Inflammatory Effects and Regulation of the Autophagy via Restoration of Sirt1 in Diabetic Wistar Fatty (fa/fa) Rats: A Model of Type 2 Diabetes

Figure 3

TGF-β, fibronectin, and collagen IV mRNA expression levels in the kidney. The mRNA expression levels of TGF-β (a), fibronectin (b), and collagen IV (c) were quantified using real-time PCR and expressed as fold increases from Wistar lean rats (WLRs). Data are means ± SD (𝑛=9−11, ^#𝑃<0.05 versus other groups).

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