Antioxidant Activity and Cardioprotective Effect of a Nonalcoholic Extract of Vaccinium meridionale Swartz during Ischemia-Reperfusion in Rats
Figure 6
(a) Representative Western blots and mean data of eNOS; (b) phospho-Akt (p-Akt) protein expression normalized to GAPDH in ischemic control hearts (IC, ) and in hearts treated with both fermented berry extract (BE, ) and berry juice (BJ, ) and BE + L-NAME (). It is observed that only BE increased the expression of eNOS and p-Akt and this increase was abolished when NOS was inhibited with L-NAME. * with respect to IC; # with respect to BE.
