Microarray analysis of spaceflown murine thymus tissue reveals changes in gene expression regulating stress and glucocorticoid receptors

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 372-381

  Lebsack, Ty W ^a   Fa, Vuna ^a   Woods, Chris C ^a   Gruener, Raphael ^a   Manziello, Ann M ^b   Pecaut, Michael J ^c   Gridley, Daila S ^c   Stodieck, Louis S ^d   Ferguson, Virginia L ^d   DeLuca, Dominick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Microarray; Microgravity; Spaceflight; Stress; T cells; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 INTERFERON; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 110; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 7; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROGRAVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THYMUS GLAND; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 77952042490     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22547     Document Type: Article

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