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Article Title: Improvement of vascular function by acute and chronic treatment with the PDE-5 inhibitor sildenafil in experimental diabetes mellitus

doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0707459

Figure Lengend Snippet: Uncoupling of eNOS in aortic rings from control rats and diabetic rats (STZ) treated either with placebo or sildenafil (5 mg kg−1 day−1 for 2 weeks) was assessed by eNOS dimer/monomer ratio following low temperature SDS-PAGE (a) *P<0.05 vs Control; #P<0.05 vs STZ-placebo. Macrophage infiltration into aortae was examined by immunohistochemistry for CD68+ cells (b). eNOS, endothelial NO synthase; SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; STZ, streptozotocin.

Article Snippet: For immunohistochemical analysis, frozen 5 μm sections of aorta were stained using primary antibody against CD68 (MCA341R, Serotec, Disseldorf, Germany).

Techniques: SDS Page, Immunohistochemistry, Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis

Journal: PLoS ONE

Article Title: The Spectrum of Podoplanin Expression in Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053382

Figure Lengend Snippet: Illustrated are the mean C reactive protein (CRP) levels (A), the mean duration of symptoms (in months, B), the mean scores for CD3 positive T cells (C) and the mean scores for CD68 positive cells (D) for the four histological groups of podoplanin patterns. The infiltrating cells were scored semi-quantitatively as described in .

Article Snippet: Additional sections were stained with a monoclonal antibody against CD68 (Clone PG-M1, DAKO Germany, Hamburg), with a monoclonal antibody against CD3 (clone: CD3–12, rat anti-human, Serotec, Oxford, UK), and with a monoclonal antibody against CD20 (clone L26; DakoCytomation, Dako Deutschland, Hamburg, Germany) .

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