Fig. 5. Effects of decorin treatment on IMAT accumulation. A) Representative histological longitudinal paraffin-embedded muscle sections, stained with hematoxylin-eosin-saffron from TAg of each experimental group (PBS- and decorin (DECO)-treated TAg) and quantification of intermuscular adipose tissue area in percentage of total muscle section area at 5 and 9 days after glycerol muscle injury (N=9). B) Perilipin, FABP4 and C/EBPα protein levels from PBS-treated and decorin-treated TAg at 5 and 9 days after glycerol muscle injury (N=10). Unpaired Student t-test, or Mann-Whitney test when data deviated from a normal distribution, was used to compare our experimental groups, * p<0.05 and **p<0.01.