Evaluation of Pathological Association between Stroke-Related QTL and Salt-Induced Renal Injury in Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat

Figure 4

Correlation of mRNA expression with fibrosis and glomerulosclerosis. (a–d) Correlation between fibrotic area (%) and Col1-1 (a), Tgf- (b), -Sma (c), and Kim-1 (d) expression. (e–h) Correlation between the prevalence of glomerulosclerosis (%) and the genetic marker expressions. Pearson’s r is indicated with p values (n=5 in each group).

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