Total RNA from the renal cortex tissue was extracted following the TRIzole method (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). Subsequently, the quantity and integrity of the RNA was measured using the NanoDrop 8,000 (Thermo Scientific) and the Agilent Bioanalyzer 2,100 (Agilent Technologies), respectively. Refer to the Affymetrix manual for cRNA related experiments (Campus IFOM IEO, Italy). Samples were hybridized onto a Human Clariom D gene chip (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California). The R statistical software pre-processed imported raw CEL files, and the Robust Multichip Average algorithm under the oligo package was used to normalize the data. The raw data were investigated using the transcriptome analysis console software (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA). A significant (p-value < 0.05) absolute fold change in gene expression of ≥ 1.5 indicated differentially expressed genes (DEGs). The R software (heatmap V1.0.12 and ggplot2 V3.3.6) was used to generate heatmaps and volcano plots of significant DEGs (Tian et al., 2021 (link)).
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