Table 1 Effects of high glucose and NOS inhibitor _L -NAME on the viability, NO release, eNOS expression and F-actin fluorescence intensity of human umbilical vein endothelial cells incubated in different media (as described in Figure 2 ) for seven days

0.80±0.093

78.6±4.00 ^#

73.7±4.40 ^#

1083±261.7 ^#

0.64±0.061

47.0±10.56 ^*

50.5±0.72 ^*

1538±250.7 ^*

0.73±0.114

42.4±8.59 ^*

39.6±0.37 ^*#

1566±309.3 ^*

0.50±0.106 ^*

58.7±13.34 ^#

57.0±1.38 ^*#

1057±316.1 ^#

0.74±0.098

57.1±11.24 ^#

56.2±1.19 ^*#

1110±385.5 ^#

0.65±0.104

50.3±9.24 ^*

48.5±1.48 ^*

1501±228.9 ^*

0.70±0.075

40.9±4.00 ^*

40.4±0.82 ^*#

1625±344.8 ^*

0.59±0.156

35.4±0.69 ^*

28.3±0.29 ^*#

1785±323.4 ^*#