Figure 3From: Importance of leptin signaling and signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 activation in mediating the cardiac hypertrophy associated with obesityHypertrophic signal transduction in hearts of lean and obese mice. Protein was isolated from hearts of 7 months-old WT (n = 15), WT + HFD (n = 12), LepRS1138 (n = 15) and LepRdb/db (n = 15) mice and analyzed for the expression of phosphorylated Jak2 (A), Src kinase (B), Akt (C), PKC (D), p38 (E) and p42/44 MAPK (F). Results are expressed as -fold increase of lean control mice (after normalization for total protein [with the exception of PKC] and GAPDH expression). The mean ± SEM as well as representative findings are shown. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001 vs. WT mice; #P < 0.05 and ##P < 0.01 vs. WT + HFD mice; §P < 0.05, §§P < 0.01 and §§§P < 0.001 for the difference between LepRdb/db and LepRS1138 mice.Back to article page