Table 1.
Main genes that were up- or downregulated based on the gene ontology (GO) analysis at week 1 compared with the levels of expression in the control.
| Upregulated genes | Downregulated genes | ||||
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| GO category | Numbers of genes | P value | GO category | Numbers of genes | P value |
| Cellular component | |||||
| Basement membrane | 14 | <0.0001 | Apical plasma membrane | 15 | <0.0001 |
| Extracellular matrix | 38 | <0.0001 | Glutamate-cysteine ligase complex | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Extracellular region | 53 | <0.0001 | Hemoglobin complex | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Extracellular space | 47 | <0.0001 | Intermediate filament | 12 | <0.0001 |
| Proteinaceous extracellular matrix | 17 | 0.0001 | Keratin filament | 8 | <0.0001 |
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| Biological process | |||||
| Cartilage morphogenesis | 3 | <0.0001 | Adhesion to symbiont | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Collagen fibril organization | 9 | <0.0001 | Cellular aldehyde metabolic process | 3 | <0.0001 |
| DNA replication | 13 | <0.0001 | Cilium movement | 4 | 0.0003 |
| DNA replication initiation | 5 | <0.0001 | Desmosome organization | 2 | <0.0001 |
| DNA unwinding involved in DNA replication | 4 | <0.0001 | Fucose metabolic process | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Extracellular fibril organization | 3 | 0.0003 | Glutathione metabolic process | 9 | <0.0001 |
| Extracellular matrix organization | 11 | 0.0003 | Male sex differentiation | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Regulation of cell growth | 7 | <0.0001 | Neutrophil aggregation | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Oxidation-reduction process | 49 | <0.0001 | |||
| Positive regulation of cation channel activity | 2 | <0.0001 | |||
| Protein homotetramerization | 8 | <0.0001 | |||
| Regulation of cell death | 3 | 0.0003 | |||
| Response to metal ion | 2 | <0.0001 | |||
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| Molecular function | |||||
| Calcium ion binding | 42 | 0.0002 | Aldehyde dehydrogenase (NAD) activity | 3 | <0.0001 |
| DNA helicase activity | 6 | <0.0001 | Aldehyde dehydrogenase [NAD(P)+] activity | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Extracellular matrix binding | 7 | <0.0001 | Alpha-L-fucosidase activity | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Extracellular matrix structural constituent | 7 | <0.0001 | Flavin adenine dinucleotide binding | 12 | <0.0001 |
| Heparin binding | 11 | <0.0001 | Glutamate-cysteine ligase activity | 2 | <0.0001 |
| Insulin-like growth factor binding | 7 | <0.0001 | Oxidoreductase activity | 44 | <0.0001 |
| Platelet-derived growth factor binding | 5 | <0.0001 | Oxidoreductase activity, acting on CH-OH group of donors | 5 | <0.0001 |
| Oxidoreductase activity, acting on paired donors, with incorporation or reduction of molecular oxygen, reduced flavin or flavoprotein as one donor, and incorporation of one atom of oxygen | 5 | 0.0003 | |||
| Structural molecule activity | 16 | 0.0001 | |||
| Superoxide dismutase activity | 3 | 0.0003 | |||
| UDP-N-acetylmuramate dehydrogenase activity | 4 | <0.0001 | |||
The values were compared according to fold change.