iNOS as a Driver of Inflammation and Apoptosis in Mouse Skeletal Muscle after Burn Injury: Possible Involvement of Sirt1 S-Nitrosylation-Mediated Acetylation of p65 NF-κB and p53
Fig 5
Burn-induced apoptotic change was mitigated by iNOS deficiency.
At 3 days after burn or sham-burn, mRNA levels of Bax and FasL, DNA fragmentation and cleaved caspase-3 were increased by burn injury in wild-type (WT) mice, all of which were mitigated in iNOS knockout (iNOS KO) mice. mRNA levels of Fas was not significantly altered by burn or iNOS deficiency. **P<0.01, ***P<0.001 vs. WT-Sham and iNOS KO-Sham, §P<0.05, §§P<0.01, §§§P<0.001 vs. WT-Burn, NS: not significant. n = 3 mice per group for Sham; n = 5 mice per group for Burn.