Skip to main content
. 2013 Jul;49(1):151–155. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2012-0489OC

Figure 4.

Figure 4.

Expression of tissue PCT transcripts and serum cytokines in mice challenged with intraperitoneal endotoxin. (A) WT mice (five per time point) were injected intraperitoneally with 100 μg of Escherichia coli endotoxin, killed after 4 or 24 hours, and organs were harvested for the measurement of PCT transcripts by quantitative RT-PCR. The levels of PCT transcripts were normalized to glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) transcripts in the same organs, and are expressed relative to PCT transcripts in thyroid at baseline. *P < 0.001 compared with PCT transcripts in thyroid of unchallenged mice; #P < 0.001 for lung transcripts and P = 0.004 for thyroid transcripts compared with unchallenged mice. (B) Blood from the same mice as in (A) was obtained by cardiac puncture for measurement of serum cytokines by multiplexed assay. *P < 0.001 compared with unchallenged mice.