Housekeeping gene stability in pristane-induced arthritis and antigen-induced pulmonary inflammation of rats.
OBJECTIVE
Aim of this study is to explore the expression stability of 12 commonly used housekeeping genes in inflammation condition.


METHODS
Two rat models, pristane-induced arthritis (PIA) and antigen-induced pulmonary inflammation (AIPI) were established and reverse transcription-PCR was performed from rat spleens and inguinal lymph nodes.


RESULTS
The reference gene expression fluctuated in the immune-associated tissues and 18S rRNA expression from the various inflammatory conditions was the most stably in all examined gene expression. Besides, peptidylprolyl isomerase A and beta-glucuronidase in PIA spleens, beta-actin and GAPDH in PIA inguinal lymph nodes, and peptidylprolyl isomerase A and beta-actin in AIPI spleens, expressed more stably than others. These results were further confirmed by expression study of TNF-alpha in PIA rat inguinal lymph nodes.


CONCLUSIONS
We suggest that the stable gene mentioned above or geometric mean of three best references in each experimental condition should be used as the reference and the variable ones should be avoided in similar study designs.
Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Post Box 81, Western Yanda Road 76, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, People's Republic of China.
Congshan
C
Jiang
Liesu
L
Meng
Wenhua
W
Zhu
Muhammad
M
Shahzad
Xudong
X
Yang
Shemin
S
Lu
D000818:Animals; D001168:Arthritis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000235:genetics; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015870:Gene Expression; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D042822:Genomic Instability; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000633:toxicity*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008168:Lung / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013729:Terpenes / Q000633:toxicity*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000235:genetics
D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D013729:Terpenes; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; C009042:pristane