Invitro Porcine Model Cutaneous Fibrosis

The goal was to obtain the differential transcriptome in the deep cones fibroblasts between shallow and deep wounds in Duroc breeds at 20 wks. We made shallow and deep wounds on the backs 2 Duroc pigs, biopsied the wounds at 20 weeks, cultured fibroblasts, extracted and the RNA from the cultured fibroblasts, and hybridized the Affymetrix GeneChip. We compared wound depth, the system included 1 factors (depth). The system also included repeated measures since the same pigs were used at each time. It also included paired data since the shallow and deep wounds compared were located on the same pig.