Extracellular and intracellular expressions of TNF-α in diabetic hearts.

<p>Plasma and tissue homogenates were used for measurement of TNF-α by using ELISA kit. The right and the left ventricle were evaluated separately for measuring the TNF-α in a regional specific manner. The values are presented as bar diagrams of either TNFα protein expression in pg/ml of plasma (A) or pg of TNFα/µg of total protein (B). All the values presented here are mean (±SEM) of n = 5.