Research Article

Protective Effects of the Soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-Products on Pyroptosis during Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion

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Effects of sRAGE on the transcription of IL-1β mRNA and IL-18 mRNA in primary cultured cardiomyocytes following ischemia-reperfusion injury. I/R groups were subjected to ischemia for 2 hours and reperfusion for 2 hours. (a) Quantitative RT-PCR of interleukin-1β mRNA expression in cardiomyocytes. (b) Quantitative RT-PCR of interleukin-18 mRNA expression in cardiomyocytes. β-Actin was used as the reference gene. Data are expressed as ( replicates). ; ; ; ns: no significance.
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