Figure 6. The effect of rAAV-angiostatin gene transfer on retinal VEGF expression at 1 day after STZ-induction of diabetes

A: The blots show representative of results from six rats. B: VEGF levels were semiquantified by densitometry and normalized by actin levels. rAAV-angiostatin decreased the expression of VEGF as compared to eyes with rAAV-lacZ injection (the asterisk indicates significance using the Wilcoxon signed rank test, n=6, p=0.043).