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Transcript expression in circulating whole blood after saline injections

ABSTRACT: These experiments were designed to produce the appropriate controls so that their cohort's transcript (mRNA) changes in whole circulating blood could be determined. The cohorts were exposed to D-amphetamine under a neurotoxic and non-neurotoxic condition or subjected to elevated environmental temperatures that produced a hyperthermia very similar to heat stroke. The cohort data is in a separate, but linked, GEO file. Animals were given four doses of 1 ml/ kg of normal saline with two hours in between each dose. The animals body temperature was determined every 1 h and the rats were sacrificed 3 h after the last saline injection. Animals were not given access to food or water during this period so that they were more suitable controls for the amphetamine treatment groups

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

SUBMITTER: John Bowyer

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-62368 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Evaluating the Stability of RNA-Seq Transcriptome Profiles and Drug-Induced Immune-Related Expression Changes in Whole Blood.

Bowyer John F JF Tranter Karen M KM Hanig Joseph P JP Crabtree Nathaniel M NM Schleimer Robert P RP George Nysia I NI

PloS one 20150715 7

Methods were developed to evaluate the stability of rat whole blood expression obtained from RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and assess changes in whole blood transcriptome profiles in experiments replicated over time. Expression was measured in globin-depleted RNA extracted from the whole blood of Sprague-Dawley rats, given either saline (control) or neurotoxic doses of amphetamine (AMPH). The experiment was repeated four times (paired control and AMPH groups) over a 2-year span. The transcriptome of ...[more]

PMID: 26177368

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Transcript expression in circulating whole blood after saline injections

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Evaluating the Stability of RNA-Seq Transcriptome Profiles and Drug-Induced Immune-Related Expression Changes in Whole Blood.

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