. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Pathobiology. 2012 Jul 12;80(1):1–10. doi: 10.1159/000339303

Table 1.

Functional groups of the 43 differentially expressed genes selected for further study

	mRNA expression in AAA vs. controls
Biological Function^*	Up	Down
Ca²⁺ Signaling	ADCY7, CCL8, CD4^§, CXCR4^§, PLEK^§, PTPRC^§	ITGA5^§, ITGA10, NPTX2
Cell Development and Differentiation	GATM^§, GPR65, PLEK^§, PTPRC^§	CSRP2, HSPB2, LDOC1, NTRK3, PRUNE2, SMARCD3, SMTN, ZBTB16
Cell Adhesion	ADCY7, CCL4, CD4^§, CXCR4^§, CYTIP, MARCKS, PTPRC^§	ITGA5^§, ITGA10, MFGE8^§
Inflammatory Response	BLNK^§, CCL4, CCL8, CD4^§, CD48, CD83, CXCR4^§, FCGR2B, GPR65, LCP2, LYZ^§, MX2, NCF4, PTPRC^§
Other	ARL4C, DUSP6^§, FOSB^§, IL10RA, SAMSN1	LARP6, LMOD1, PDE8B, RAMP1, RASL12, TMOD1, TPM2

Biological function was based on GO categories [14]

^§

Molecules chosen for follow-up immunohistochemical analyses.