Figure 4.
(A) Volcano plot of the genes differentially expressed in purified endothelial cells. Yellow represents 18997 genes that were not modified; grey, the 297 genes with expression decreased from 1.5 to 2-fold; orange, the 30 genes with expression decreased more than 2-fold; dark blue, the 682 genes with expression increased from 1.5 to 2-fold; light blue, the 140 genes with expression induced more than 2-fold. (B) Clustering by Gene Set Enrichment Analysis of the 20146 genes analyzed in the microarray analysis. The figure represents the 6 most significant pathways; the complete list (with the default threshold fixed at false discovery rate <0.25) is in Supplementary Fig. 2. Pathways of stress and inflammation are considerably enriched in upregulated genes, for a marked pro-inflammatory status of endothelial cells in mice with preeclampsia 8 months earlier versus mice with a normotensive pregnancy.