Figure 5. Sirt1 upregulates cardioprotective molecules in the heart.
Heart homogenates were prepared from the ischemic area in Tg-Sirt1 and NTg mice subjected to I/R. Expression of Bax, MnSOD, Trx1, Bcl-xL, cleaved caspase-3 and tubulin was evaluated by immunoblots. (A) Representative immunoblots are shown. (B-F) The quantitative and statistical analyses of the immunoblots are shown. The relative expression of MnSOD (B), Trx1 (C), Bcl-xL (D), Bax (E) and cleaved caspase-3 (F) in Tg-Sirt1 versus NTg is shown. The expression level of NTg mice is expressed as 1. (G-I) Representative immunostaining of Bcl-xL (G), cleaved caspase-3 (H), and 8-OHdG (I) in the ischemic area of left ventricular myocardial sections in Tg-Sirt1 and NTg mice subjected to I/R.