Fig. 2From: Hypercholesterolemia downregulates autophagy in the rat heartHypercholesterolemia activated mTOR pathway. a Representative Western blots for mTOR pathway-related proteins in the left ventricle of NORM and CHOL rats. b-e Quantification of phospho-Akt [Ser473; Thr308], phospho-mTOR [Ser2448], and phospho-S6 [Ser235/236] protein expressions as normalized to the corresponding total proteins. NORM (n = 4) vs. CHOL (n = 5); mean + SEM; *: p < 0.05)Back to article page