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Transcription profiling of rat severed medial collateral ligament following injury

ABSTRACT: Gene Expression Profiling of Severed Rat Medial Collateral Ligament at 1, 2, 4, 7,1 0, and 14 days Following Injury with Control and Cultured Ligament Fibroblasts and Rat Universal Reference RNA; The aim of this study was to assess the genes involved in the repair of the the dense connective tissue of the a rat ligament in order to provide targets for improvement in healing. Rat whole genome microarrays (Agilent) were used in this study and Cy3 and Cy5 labeled total RNA was extracted and labeled with Cy3 or Cy5 prior to fragmentation and hybridization. Experiment Overall Design: To conserve microarrays to allow maximum replicates, two samples either Cy3 or Cy5 labeled were hybridized to each microarry. Total RNA from each rat medial collateral ligament was labeled and hybrided to a microarray. The fluorescence intensity for each column minus the background was extracted from each microarray for submission to BRB Array tools for statistical analysis.

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

SUBMITTER: Xinyu Wang

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-10720 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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