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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Periodontal Res. 2006 Dec;41(6):567–572. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0765.2006.00909.x

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

β-defensin expression in rat gingival epithelium. mRNA was isolated from rat gingiva and amplified by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction. The amplification products were subjected to agarose-gel electrophoresis then examined for the presence of rat β-defensin (RBD)-1, RBD-2 and Defb5. Kidney and lung were included as positive controls. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAP-DH) was included as a housekeeping gene.