Fig. 8

Changes of apoptosis-related proteins between young and adult rats after IR. Western blot analysis of apoptosis-related proteins (A); Caspase-8 expression (B); Cleaved caspase-8 expression (C); Caspase-3 expression (D); Cleaved caspase-3expression (E); Bad expression (F), Bcl-xL expression (G) and Bcl-2 expression (H). (n = 7 per group; ^*p < 0.05, significantly different from the respectively sham-group; ^#p < 0.05, significantly different from the corresponding young group; ^$p < 0.05, significantly different from the corresponding 1 day group; full-length blots are presented in Additional file 1: Fig. S2). The bars indicate the means ± SEM