Fig. 8

Protein expression related to vascular endothelial cells in the soleus muscle. Protein expression of CD31 (a), insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS2) (b), and phosphorylated endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) (c) as determined by western blot analysis. Entire images of western blotting are shown in online Additional file 1: Figure S9 (b, d, f) and S10 (b, d, f). Values are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean