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. 2018 Nov 5;8:16324. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34427-2

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Haploinsufficiency of Pax8 or Nkx2-1 exacerbates the effects of TCDD treatment. Expression of thyroid specific transcripts in unexposed or 0,1 μg/kg/day TCDD exposed mice (from E15.5 to PND60) of each genotype. Thyroid Pax8, Nkx2-1 and Nis transcripts were assayed by RT-qPCR in C57BL/6 wild type (wt), Pax8+/− and Nkx2-1+/− (at left of the dashed lines) and in TCDD-wt, -Pax8+/− and -Nkx2-1+/− (at right of the dashed lines), males (a,b and c) and females (d,e and f). Data are reported as means ± SD of Gapdh normalized-mRNA levels; n = 4 mice for each group. *p-value < 0.05; **p-value < 0.01 for statistical analysis of TCDD-exposed vs untreated mice having the same genotype; #p-value < 0.05; ##p-value < 0.01 TCDD-exposed vs TCDD-wt mice; p-value < 0.05 unexposed mice of different genotype vs wt mice.