Frozen myocardial tissue from the infarcted, adjacent, and remote areas of the pigs was homogenized in TRIzol isolation reagent (Life Technologies, Madrid, Spain) for RNA isolation. RT-qPCR was performed using an ABI Prism 7900 sequence detection system (Life Technologies, Madrid, Spain) with TaqMan Gene Expression Assays (Life Technologies, Madrid, Spain). The fold change in gene expression from the control group was calculated using the 2−ΔΔCt method [10 (link)].
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