The kidney tissues snap-frozen and stored at -80°C were used for mRNA microarray analyses as previously described [21 (link)]. Total RNA was isolated using the miRNeasy 96 kit (Qiagen, Cat No 217061, Valencia, CA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Quality and quantity of RNA were evaluated with a 2100 Bioanalyzer (Cat. No. 62947, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA), using the Agilent RNA 6000 Nano Reagents (Cat. No. 5067–1511, Agilent Technologies,), and a multi-well Nanodrop 8000 spectrophotometer (Cat. No. 1464, Scientific, Waltham, MA).
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