Kir2.1 protein exparession and localization in wt and dystrophic ventricular cardiomyocytes. (A) Representative western blot experiment of membrane lysates from adult wt and dystrophic (mdx and mdx-utr) ventricular tissues stained for Kir2.1 and the β-subunit of a Gs protein (AS7). The latter was used as loading control. (B) Relative band intensities of Kir2.1 normalized to the respective band intensities of the loading control plotted as means ± SEM for wt (n = 5) and dystrophic (mdx, n = 6; mdx-utr, n = 2) animals. A Student's t-test did not reveal a significant difference between wt and mdx (p = 0.11; n.s., not significant). (C) Typical examples of Kir2.1 immunostainings of an isolated wt (left) and mdx (right) cardiomyocyte.