Effect of High-Fat Diet upon Inflammatory Markers and Aortic Stiffening in Mice

Figure 3

Collagen content in aortae. Representative photomicrographs of mouse aorta under picrosirius staining-light microscopy and polarized light microscopy, magnification of 400x (a). Quantitative analyses of the collagen fibers in adventitia from the HF diet and ST diet groups (b). ^∗∗𝑃≤0.01; ^##𝑃≤0.01; HF diet versus ST diet; 𝑛=5 per group.

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