Research Article

Reduced Susceptibility to Sugar-Induced Metabolic Derangements and Impairments of Myocardial Redox Signaling in Mice Chronically Fed with D-Tagatose when Compared to Fructose

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Effects of liquid sugars feeding on myocardial expression and activation of COX-2. Representative Western blotting and relative densitometric analysis of the expression of COX-2 (a) and concentration of PgE2 (b) in the heart of mice fed for 24 weeks with a control diet or with a diet containing liquid supplementation of fructose/D-tagatose. Protein expression was measured as relative optical density (OD), corrected for the corresponding tubulin contents and normalized using the related CD band. Values are represented as means ± S.E.M. of 6 animals per group. and denote, respectively, and vs. CD. ## and ### denote, respectively, and vs. L-Tg diet.
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