Quantitative real-time RT-PCR was performed in triplicate in 96-well plates; each 10 μL reaction consisted of 5 μL of FAST Universal Master Mix (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA), 0.5 μL of probe primer sets of CCR1 (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA USA), CCR2 (Life Technologies), CCR3 (Life Technologies), or ACTB (Applied Biosystems), 1.5 μL of ddH20, and 3 μL of template.
The real-time PCR analysis was performed on an Applied Biosystems Prism 7900 Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems).
Ct values were normalized for the deviations against ACTB serving as a housekeeping gene. The differential gene expression was estimated as: ΔCt = Ct(blank control) − Ct(mCCL7+), and fold-change = 2(−ΔCt).