The Effect of Chromium Picolinate Supplementation on the Pancreas and Macroangiopathy in Type II Diabetes Mellitus Rats

Figure 3

The mRNA expression levels of APN and apelin in each group. (a) Agarose gel electrophoresis of RT-PCR products. (b) The histogram of relative mRNA expression levels of APN and apelin compared with β -actin. CN: the normal control group, group 1; T2DM: T2DM (type II diabetes mellitus) control group, group 2; CrPic-25: group 3 (25 μg/kg); CrPic-50: group 4 (50 μg/kg); and CrPic-100: group 5 (100 μg/kg). ^∗∗𝑃<0.01 compared with group 1; ^∗𝑃<0.05 compared with group 1; ^##𝑃<0.01 compared with group 2; and ^#𝑃<0.05 compared with group 2.

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