Research Article

Bone Marrow Culture-Derived Conditioned Medium Recovers Endothelial Function of Vascular Grafts following In Vitro Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Diabetic Rats

Table 1

(a) Aortic morphometry and (b) quantitative analysis of vascular function after ischemia/reperfusion injury in control and diabetic rats. rats/group.
(a)

ControlDM

Body weight (g)
Intima-media thickness to body weight (mm/g) (×1,000)
Intima-media area to body weight (mm2/g) (×1,000)
Lumen area to body weight (mm2/g) (×1,000)
Intima-media/lumen area ratio

(b)

Control
(-32 rings, 8 rats)
Control-IR
(-31 rings, 8 rats)
DM
(-32 rings, 8 rats)
DM-IR
(-44 rings, 10-11 rats)

PE (g)
PE (% of KCl)
pD2 to PE
KCl (g)
to ACh (%)
pD2 to ACh
to SNP (%)
pD2 to SNP

Data are represented as the . DM: diabetes mellitus; IR: ischemia/reperfusion; PE: phenylephrine; KCl: potassium chloride; ACh: acetylcholine; SNP: sodium nitroprusside; : maximum relaxation; pD2: negative logarithm of the corresponding half-maximum response (EC50). versus control; # versus control-IR; $ versus DM.