Insulin promotes sinusoidal endothelial cell proliferation mediated by upregulation of vascular endothelial growth factor in regenerating rat liver after partial hepatectomy

Table 1 Oligonucleotides used as primers in RT-PCR procedure

Primer	Nucleotide sequence	PCR product lengths (bp)
Rat VEGF	Sense: 5’-ACTGGACCCTGGCTTTACTG-3’	256
	Antisense: 5’-ACGCACTCCAGGGCTTCATC-3’
	GenBank NM031836
Rat Flt-1	Sense: 5’-AGGAGAGGACCTGAAACTGTCTT-3’	214
	Antisense: 5’-ATTCCTGGGCTCTGCAGGCATAG-3’[10]
Rat Flk-1	Sense: 5’-GTGATTGCCATGTTCTTCTGGC-3’	337
	Antisense: 5’-TCAGACATGAGAGCTCGATGCT-3’
	GenBank U93306
Rat β-actin	Sense: 5’-TTCCACACACACCAGCTTCG-3’	366
	Antisense: 5’-GGGGTGGTGTGGAGATTTAG-3’
	GenBank NM031144