Diesel Engine Exhaust Initiates a Sequence of Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Effects in Rats

Table 5

Gene expression ratios ($mean\pm SD$) in rat aorta and heart tissue due to exposure to DEE as determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions.

	4 h aorta	4 h heart	24 h aorta	24 h heart
Ape/Ref-1	$1.66\pm 1.00$	$0.96\pm 0.40$	$0.90\pm 0.25$	$0.92\pm 0.28$
iNOS	$0.91\pm 0.42$	$0.90\pm 0.21$	$1.00\pm 0.49$	$0.76\pm 0.25$
HO-1	$1.93\pm 0.96$	$0.85\pm 0.28$	$0.88\pm 0.43$	$0.89\pm 0.33$