Table 1. Functions associated with phagocytes and cell proliferation identified in the transcriptome of splenic myeloid cells from hamsters with VL.

Functions	p-Value	Activation State	Activation z-score	# Molecules
Cell proliferation of tumor cell lines	2.45E-271	Increased	2.1	278
Hematopoiesis of mononuclear leukocytes	2.58E-41	Increased	2.9	80
Differentiation of mononuclear leukocytes	4.15E-42	Increased	2.8	81
Differentiation of phagocytes	1.52E-21	Increased	2.0	35
Hematopoiesis of phagocytes	4.56E-21	Increased	2.0	30
Infiltration by mononuclear leukocytes	7.52E-21	Increased	2.9	29
Chemotaxis of phagocytes	9.77E-21	Increased	2.7	36
Quantity of hematopoietic progenitor cells	2.86E-36	Increased	2.1	60

p-Value, Fisher’s Exact test to reflect the likelihood that the association between molecules and a given process is due to random chance. Activation state and Z score predicted with IPA.