Postischemic renal microcirculatory blood flow recovery in WT and CHOP^−/− mice.

Baseline renal blood flow was obtained by monitoring the microvascular blood flow in the right kidney. Then the right kidney was removed and the left one was subjected to ischemia. After the initiation of reperfusion, the blood flow in the left kidney was measured at the indicated time points, and the mean value versus the baseline value was defined as relative renal perfusion. Graph showed data acquired from 4–6 independent experiments for each mouse strain at each time point. *P<0.05 between WT and CHOP−/− groups.