Estimation of paracrine signaling using quantitative RT-PCR from multiple patchy lesion samples

Shuang Jiao1, Haruo Hanawa, Tomoyasu Suzuki

  • 1Division of Cardiology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan.

We investigated whether correlations between mRNA levels of cytokines versus other proteins from patchy lesion could estimate cytokine paracrine signaling in vivo. Experiments with rat experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM), a patchy myocarditis model, indicated IL-1 and other protein levels were correlated, indicating paracrine signaling pathways in vivo.

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