Influence of Tumour Necrosis Factor Alpha on the Outcome of Ischaemic Postconditioning in the Presence of Obesity and Diabetes

Figure 7

Effects of diabetes on physiological parameters in TNF ^−/− mice. Body weight remained unchanged in Streptozotocin (STZ)-treated mice (a) but decreased the heart weight 5 days post treatment (b). mice (a) but decreased the heart weight 5 days post treatment (b). Blood glucose (c), plasma insulin (d) and plasma leptin (e) were increased with STZ, *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01, ***𝑃<0.001 versus no STZ; 𝑛=6.

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