Green Tea Polyphenols for the Protection against Renal Damage Caused by Oxidative Stress

Figure 8

Western blot analyses of RAGE (A), TGF-𝛽₁ (B), and fibronectin (C) protein expression in the renal cortex of normal rats (N) and diabetic nephrectomized rats treated with (−)-epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate at 25 mg/kg body weight/day (E25), 50 mg/kg body weight/day (E50), 100 mg/kg body weight/day (E100), or water (control, C) for 50 days. Significance: ^a𝑃<0.05, ^b𝑃<0.01, ^c𝑃<0.001 versus normal values; ^d𝑃<0.05, ^e𝑃<0.01, ^f𝑃<0.001 versus diabetic nephropathy control values.