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Published in final edited form as: Vision Res. 2009 Aug 22;50(7):652–664. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.018

Table 1.

RT-qPCR analysis showing acute induction of Nrf2 responsive anti-oxidant genes (NQO-1 and GCLM) by the RPE of Nrf2+/+ mice (n = 4 each group) after 1 and 21 day exposure to cigarette smoke. Expression was normalized to β-actin.

Mouse	Day	NQO-1		GCLM
		Fold change^a	p-value	Fold change^a	p-value
Nrf2+/+	1	3	0.11	3.1	0.0003
	21	2.9	0.04	1.7	0.04
Nrf2−/−	1	1.4	0.19	1.6	0.17
	21	1.6	0.27	0.42	0.48

Ratio of CS/air.