FIGURE 2.
Effects of a Sham surgery on liver transcriptome and metabolome. (A) Heatmap of top 500 DEGs between Sham and Intact animals. A laparotomy caused a clearly distinct expression pattern even after 2 weeks of recovery. (B) Volcano Plot depicting the analysis of 78 metabolites in Sham-denervated and Intact-animals. The volcano plot shows a large number of metabolites with a divergent expression pattern due to the Sham surgery. Metabolites identified in red showed statistical significant changes of p < 0.05 (−log10 > 1.3) p < 0.01 (−log10 > 2) or p < 0.001 (−log10 > 3), metabolites in yellow showed a fold change > 2 (log2FC > 1).