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. 2018 Jan 12;8:629. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-19035-w

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Transcriptional activity of ETnI, ETnII-α, ETnII-β, ETnII-γ, IAP and MusD genes in whole embryos and, from the offspring, in blood and brain samples obtained from VPA- and vehicle-treated CD-1 mice. The ERVs expression profile in whole embryos (panel A–F) explanted 3 and 24 hours post the treatment, in blood (panel A’–F’) and brain (panel A”–F”) samples obtained at post natal day 1, 7, 23 and 120, was examined by real time-PCR and represented as box plots, depicting mild (black dot) and extreme (asterisk) outliers for each group. In whole embryos higher transcriptional activity of all ERVs analysed in VPA groups (blue box plots) than in vehicle groups (white box plots) was evident, at both time points. In blood, VPA-treated mice (blue box plots) showed higher transcriptional levels of all ERVs than in age-matched controls (white box plots), at post natal day 1 and 7, while in brain at each age points.