";s:4:"text";s:4461:" This work was also supported by Bolyai Scholarship, PTE-ÁOK-KA-2013/3 and OTKA NN109841.Conceived and designed the experiments: TK BS FG AK Krisztina Kovacs (Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry). Macrophages were counted in 5 non-overlapping high power fields (200×) in each sections by an expert who was blind to the experiment.Slides were deparaffinized in xilene, rehydrated in graded ethanol series, and washed in distilled water. PI-3K and Akt proteins are expressed constitutively in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs).
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