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 5

MCP-1, ICAM-1, and VCAM-1 mRNA expression levels in the kidney. The mRNA expression levels of MCP-1 (a), ICAM-1 (b), and VCAM-1 (c) were quantified using real-time PCR and expressed as fold increases from Wistar fatty rats. Data are means ± SD (𝑛=9−11, ^#𝑃<0.05 versus other groups).

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