Hydrogen Sulfide Improves Vascular Calcification in Rats by Inhibiting Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress

Table 1

General characteristics and vascular total calcium and plasma and aortic ALP.

	SBP	Calcium	ALP	ALP
		Aorta, mmol/g DW	Plasma, IU/L	Aorta, IU/g protein
Control	118.1 ± 3.7	6.11 ± 2.21	135.4 ± 18.2	250.20 ± 60.22
VDN	155.8 ± 5.1	51.38 ± 5.12	349.4 ± 31.6	462.42 ± 61.17
VDN + NaHS	114.3 ± 5.3	13.14 ± 8.56	174.4 ± 23.6	193.52 ± 23.34
VDN + Tm	151.7 ± 2.6	60.56 ± 10.01	361.2 ± 26.8	510.46 ± 41.10
VDN + Tm + NaHS	150.0 ± 4.9	55.56 ± 6.34	340.6 ± 18.0	490.20 ± 26.48
VDN + PBA	110.3 ± 3.3	14.01 ± 5.78	125.4 ± 31.2	221.56 ± 22.46
VDN + PBA + NaHS	108 ± 9.9	13.89 ± 8.02	133.0 ± 28.0	216.08 ± 31.64

⁢ cf. control group; cf. VDN; cf. VDN + H₂S group.
SBP, systolic blood pressure.