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Figure 5

From: Functional Improvement and Regression of Medial Hypertrophy in the Remodeled Pulmonary Artery after Correction of Systemic Left-to-Right Shunt

Figure 5

Measurement of tissue concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-2, IL-6, IL-12, MCP-1 and TNF-α) in lung homogenates using the ELISA assay.

*P < 0.05 compared with non-ligation group. n = 6–8 different animals in each group. Data were were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and are shown as mean ± SD. Dotted lines denote the levels of sham-operated animals.

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