Mice Long-Term High-Fat Diet Feeding Recapitulates Human Cardiovascular Alterations: An Animal Model to Study the Early Phases of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Figure 6
Collagen type I and collagen type III content in myocardium of normal and obese mice.
(A and C) Representative immunoblots at eight and 16 months. Tubulin was detected as a loading control. (B and D) Densitometric measurements (arbitrary units). n = 7–8. p<0.05 vs. normal mice (Student test). COL I: collagen type I, COL III: collagen type III.