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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Oral Microbiol. 2010 Apr;25(2):89–101. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-1014.2010.00569.x

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Bad messenger RNA (mRNA) levels slowly decreased by Porphyromonas gingivalis infection. Gene expression was measured by quantitative reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction on mRNA from primary gingival epithelial cells (GECs) (A) and Akt-deficient GECs (B) infected with P. gingivalis for 0 min (control), 6, 12, and 24 h. Relative fold change was calculated by dividing the copy number of the gene transcript in P. gingivalis-infected cells by the copy number in control cells. Data are representative of three independent experiments performed in triplicate. *P = 0.05; Student’s t-test) for 24-h uninfected GECs versus 24-h infected GECs.