TABLE 2.

Comparative analysis by real-time PCR of a subset of thyroid-specific genes

Gene name	Accession no.	Relative inductiona
Tg	NM_030988	−21.6
Txnrd1	NM_031614	−5.3
Pds	NM_019214.1	−3.8
TSH-R	NM_012888	−2.15
Nis	NM_052983	−1.5
TTF-1	D38035	−1.3
Pax-8	X94246	−1.2
TTF-2	Y11321	−1.07
Tpo	NM_019353	1.17
Tubulin	NM_022298

^aRelative induction (n-fold) is calculated in terms of Cl.1 versus pcDNA and represents the mean of three separate real-time PCRs run in duplicate.