RNA was isolated with RNAeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA) and cDNA was synthesized with First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (Fermentas). Quantitative PCR was performed with a SYBR Green PCR kit (Roche, Laval, Canada) in an iQ5 (Bio-Rad) detection system. The sequences of the primer pairs of TNF-α, IL-6, CARD9 and TLR4 were described before [40 (link)–43 (link)]. LSECtin primer pairs were purchased from Qiagen.
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