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. 2020 Sep 3;10:14606. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71762-9

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Placental gene expression profiles of SD and WIS rats. a Cytokine and chemokine gene expression measured by RT-qPCR. Values are the mean 2−ΔCq ± SD determined by the comparative Cq method40 using Actb as the reference gene (n = 6). #Indicates genes that were not detected by RT-qPCR in SD rats. (b) The mean fold response of the same cytokine and chemokine genes shown in (a). Values were generated by dividing the mean 2−ΔCq (n = 6) of the infected group by the mean 2−ΔCq (n = 6) of the corresponding control group. *Indicates the 2−ΔCq values that were significantly affected by infection in panel (a) based on student’s t test. (c) Expression of genes involved in placental morphogenesis measured by RT-qPCR. Values are the mean 2−ΔCq ± SD determined by the comparative Cq method40 with the corresponding Actb used as the reference gene (n = 6). (d) The mean fold response of the same placental genes shown in panel c. *Indicates the 2−ΔCq values that were significantly affected by infection in panel c based on Student’s t test. Composite image was created with Adobe Photoshop 2020 v. 21.1.3 (www.adobe.com).