PCR array of inflammatory cytokines and receptors in mouse lungs with NF-kappaB RelA mutant in alveolar epithelial cells during LPS stimulation. Mus musculus

A murine model of RelA mutated throughout the alveolar epithelium was generated. Mice were anesthetized and intratracheally instilled with 50μg LPS into the left lung lobe. Mice were euthanized after 6 hours after instillation, and left lung lobes were collected to isolate RNA. We used SABioscience Mouse Inflammatory Cytokines and Receptors PCR Array to evaluate whether the expressions of lung cytokines and receptors during LPS stimulation are dependent on alveolar epithelial NF-κB RelA or not. Overall design: qPCR gene expression profiling. RNA were collected from six different mouse lungs in each genotype (wild-type and alveolar epithelial RelA mutant). Equal amount of RNA (200ng) was pooled from six different mouse lungs, and 1μg of total RNA (1.2μg) was used to the PCR array.