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From: Host predisposition by endogenous Transforming Growth Factor-β1 overexpression promotes pulmonary fibrosis following bleomycin injury

Figure 4

Oligonucleotide microarray analysis reveals coordinate patterns of gene expression in response to bleomycin lung injury. A. Gene expression in Bleomycin treated Tr- Wild Type (WT BL, WTB1, WTB2) and Tr+ TGFβ1 trasgenic mice (TGF BL, TGFBL1, TGFBL2), and untreated Tr+ TGFβ1 trasgenic mice (TGF, TGF1, TGF2) was assessed using Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430_2 oligonucleotide microarrays in duplicate (data are reported in the cluster dendogram as single analysis and average: cel1, cel2 and average, respectively). Average and actual expression values for all significantly dysregulated genes were used as input in unsupervised hierarchical cluster visualization. Shown is a representative cluster dendrograms indicating separation of the conditions based on gene expression profiles, highlighting an high homology (based on the t-score) of both bleomycin treated group, respect to untreated Tr+ transgenic mice group. Figure B summarises the total number of genes found to be significantly altered in each comparison (Tr+ and bleomycin vs Tr- WT and bleomycin; Tr+ and bleomycin vs Tr+; Tr+ vs Tr- WT and bleomycin). A high number of altered genes were found to be upregulated and dowwnregulated in bleomycin treated Tr+ vs Tr+ group. C. To further annotate the pulmonary fibrosis associated transcriptome, significantly perturbed genes from bleomycin treated Tr+ vs Tr+ group were used as input in searches of the Gene Ontology database to identify the biological function of the altered genes.

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