Effect of Aqueous Extract from Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl on Ventricular Remodeling in Chronic Heart Failure Rats

Figure 5

(a) Double staining of TUNEL and cTnI in myocardial tissue (scale bar: 20 μm). Green indicated the TUNEL-positive cell nucleus, and red indicated the cTnI signals. TUNEL-positive cells were counted and averaged in four randomly selected high-power fields around the border zone for each section. The results showed that DS decreased myocardial apoptosis compared with the HF group. Values were mean ± SD. P <0.05 versus HF group. (b), (c), (d) DS could decrease the ratio of Bax/bcl-2 and cleaved-Caspase-3 protein expression and enhance the p-Akt protein expression. Values were mean ± SD. P <0.05 versus HF group.

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