Lycopene Inhibits Urotensin-II-Induced Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy in Neonatal Rat Cardiomyocytes

Figure 3

Effects of lycopene on U-II-induced ERK phosphorylation in cardiomyocytes. Upper panels: representative western blot analyses of ERK in cells pretreated for 6 h with lycopene (3 μM) then exposed to U-II (1 nM) for 30 min. Lower panels: the indicated values represent the ratio of phosphorylated protein to total protein. The results are shown as mean ± SEM (𝑛=6). ^∗𝑃<0.05 versus control; ^#𝑃<0.05 versus U-II alone.