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Latoya: Crybaby Girl and Other Episodes is a fan-fiction VHS/DVD Release featuring two Charmaine and Latoya episodes, two Thomas and Friends episodes and two Rumor Has It episodes.
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With more than 400 years of shipbuilding history, the city of Bath has become known as the City of Ships. The historic buildings of Bath date largely from the 19th and 20th centuries, although settlement began in the mid-1600s.
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House Republicans will unveil a 2012 budget plan today that slashes tax rates and calls for unprecedented cuts in federal health benefits.
The plan by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would cut spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in order to produce $4.4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years.
The proposal is being released as Congress and the White House continue to negotiate over $33 billion in spending cuts needed to complete the 2011 budget. They face a midnight Friday deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, which last occurred 15 years ago.
"The new House Republican majority will introduce a budget that moves the debate from billions in spending cuts to trillions," Ryan said in a column to be published in today's Wall Street Journal. The plan, dubbed "The Path to Prosperity," was criticized by Democrats such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi even before it was released.
The plan would allow new Medicare beneficiaries, starting in 2022, to choose a health program, with Medicare subsidizing the cost. There would be more help for low-income recipients and those with greater health risks. States would receive Medicaid block grants. And Social Security spending would be reduced. � Richard Wolf
Ron Paul-Jesse Ventura ticket for 2012?
Jesse Ventura could be coaxed into another bid for political office, this time on the 2012 presidential ticket. The former pro wrestler and independent Minnesota governor said on ABC's Good Morning America that he would consider getting back into politics next year as Rep. Ron Paul's running mate for the White House. Ventura said he would agree to such a comeback if the Texas Republican ran as an independent.
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Error in partition. Unexpected Inconsistency, won't let me run fsck!
A couple nights ago one of my boxes froze up and I had to cut off the power supply. When restarted I got the dreaded message I just knew I was going to see. There were errors found in the first partition. It automatically tries to fixed it but about 90% through I get this error:
UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: Run fsck Manually
It then ask me to enter root password to enter system maintence.
When I enter the root password I get:
Bash id: command not found
Then it reboots. I can't do anything else this way so I'm assuming I need to run fsck on the slack cd. But I must be running something wrong.
When I run something like:
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All it does is print out the commands.
I also tried e2fsk but same result. I'm almost sure I used ext. 2 filesystem.
What do I need to do to fix this? Thanks for your time.
i think you must run " e2fsck /dev/hdb1 "
after booting from cd.
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February 3, 2011 by staff
Total Blackout, The day of March promises millions in the streets of the capital Internet was completely blocked in Egypt, with public transport, in an attempt to prevent those involved in the protest to communicate among them. Noor same supplier group, the only one to remain active in those days, was offline, plunge the country into complete isolation. January 27 Link Egypt, Vodafone / Raya Telecom Misr / Egypt and Etisalat – the main industry – have been closed.
Google, in response to the blocking of the Internet in Egypt, has created a way to send messages to the microblogging service Twitter, making phone calls. Voice messages left at +16504194196, +97316199855 or +390662207294 will be instantly converted into messages "tweets", and published on the platform with a # Twitter "hashtags identification Egypt. To listen to messages, people can call the same numbers or connect to twitter.com/speak2tweet.
The creators of the initiative Abdel-Karim Mardini, product manager at Google, and Ujjwal Singh, co-founder of SayNow, said: "We hope this can help people in Egypt in some way to stay in touch in a difficult time. "
Egypt last Internet service provider Working Group Noor, was disconnected, a U.S. web monitoring told to leave the country in crisis completely disconnected.
Renesys, a New Hampshire company that monitors Internet routing data in real time, said Monday that the network Noor "began to disappear from the Internet around 8:46 p.m. GMT.
"They are totally unavailable at the moment," Vice-President and CEO Earl Zmijewski Renesys said in a blog post.
Attempts by the AFP news agency to access other sites noor.net and served in Egypt by
The company, such as the Egyptian stock exchange site egyptse.com, was unsuccessful.
Egypt four major Internet service providers – Link Egypt, Vodafone / Raya Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr – cut off access to their international clients on Thursday.
The move left the group Noor ISP working only in the country shaken by days of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak.
Mobile phone networks were also severely disrupted in Egypt with the Internet.
Militants have used mobile phones and the Internet to organize demonstrations against the worst government in decades, the events inspired by the insurgency in Tunisia.
Google, in response to the blockade of the Internet in Egypt, announced Monday it had created a way to send messages to the Twitter microblogging service by making phone calls.
Google has worked with Twitter and freshly acquired SayNow, a startup specialist in social platforms online voice, to allow anyone to "tweet" leaving a message to one of three phone numbers.
"Like many people we've been glued to the news that takes place in Egypt and the thought of what we could do to help people on the ground," Google product manager Abdel-Karim Mardini and co-SayNow founder Ujjwal Singh said in a blog post.
"Over the weekend we had the idea of a service to talk to tweet – the ability for anyone to tweet just using a voice connection, they said.
Voice messages left at +16504194196, +97316199855 +390662207294 or will be instantly converted into text messages, called tweets, Twitter and displayed an identification with "hashtags" for # Egypt.
Twitter hashtags are designed as search terms that people can easily find reviews on particular topics or events.
People can call the same numbers to listen to messages or listen online at twitter.com/speak2tweet.
"We hope this will go some way to help people in Egypt stay connected to this very difficult time," said Singh and Mardini. "Our thoughts are with everyone there."
Google, meanwhile, declined to comment on reports that one of its marketing executives, based in Egypt, Wael Ghonim, has been missing since Friday night.
"We care deeply about the safety of our employees, but to protect their privacy, we do not comment on them individually," a spokesman for the California Internet giant said in an emailed response to an AFP inquiry.
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CHINESE interest in Australian agricultural land is intensifying, with about $500 million of intended investment planned ahead of the release of a key federal government report that will reveal the extent of foreign ownership in the sector.
A diverse group of Chinese delegates from private and state-owned companies met in Sydney just before Christmas with Austrade representatives, corporate advisers and industry heads, to discuss opportunities in rural Australia covering more than 100,000 hectares of prime land, reports The Australian Financial Review.
The Chinese delegation included three representatives from China's Ministry of Commerce, which recently forecast that the country's private companies and wealth funds would invest up to $560 billion overseas by 2015.
The presidents of companies such as Shandong Taifeng Textile Co Ltd and the Shanghai Xiangfu Real Estate Investment Co attended the private lunch in order to discuss their plans, ranging from a $25 million purchase of 20,000 hectares of cotton property to investing $US350 million in farmland in Western Australia and Queensland.
Other major Chinese companies included in the discussions were the Bright Food (Group) Co, Shandong Ruyi Technology Group Co and Nanshan Group Co Ltd.
Documents seen by The Australian Financial Review, titled The China Food Security Study, reveals the Chinese companies were interested in investing more than $500 million in agricultural ventures ranging from dairy farming and ultra-fine wool production to animal husbandry and frozen vegetables.
One of the documents indicates that the Nanshan Group, ranked 188 in the top 500 enterprises of China, is intending to secure four properties with an area of about 30,000 hectares in NSW and Tasmania for the production of superfine wool.
Another Chinese government-backed company, Shaanxi Kingbull Livestock Co, is intending to buy a 5000 hectare cattle station in Australia as a stepping stone to importing 10,000 high-quality beef cattle and calves from Australia each year.


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Phil Collins is most famous for being a member of Genesis. Genesis is a band that wrote artsy, progressive rock songs about the first book of the Bible. It was started by Peter Gabriel and a less important guy named Michael Rutherford. Collins replaced Gabriel as lead singer and frontman for the band after Gabriel ascended into Heaven.
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Well I've been here for quite some time, and as it seems you've taken over the logo I suggested. ;P
But there are some parts of the wiki I do like, and some I don't. And I think it's more efficient if I use Wikia's blogging feature for that. I'll mark my review with "(++)", "(--)" etc. to point out which parts I find positive and which ones I think they need to be improved, and I'll try to be fair.
As of October 2009 this wikia has about 3,000 articles (++) that are more or less above stub level (+) and have sources (+), a well going community (++) and regular contributers that know about One Piece. (++)
But there are some parts of this wiki that make it "plain" and "less good": First one is - the skin needs some freshing up. (-) There are many German wikias - not just the OnePiecePedia - that switchtet to the Monaco skin as default and modified it - via Skin, Toolbox and Sidebar. It's nothing that needs to be done desperately but I'd be glad if you could make it more colorful. ;)
Second one is... You heavy usage of GIF animations from Fansubs. (--) IMO a clear and neat screenshot 640x480 with 50 up to 150kb outweights a thumbnail sized animation which is some megabytes large. Even if you had a thumbnail still on the article page, you still had the image description page where readers can have a look on the images' details. If you want to use animations, maybe you want to upload video streams instead? They'd had the benefit of loading and start the animation by request - and not by default (unless you hit <Esc> or turn GIF animations off in your browser) If you want to have stills - User Talk: Defchris. Though I stopped watching the TV show midway half of the Amazon Lily arc.
Third one is... Your forum... Sorry but that's a talk page. (-) Have a look at ... well, maybe the Memory Alpha - that's actually the standard throughout wikia how they made up their forum(s). ;)
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The Ravens officially announced the signing of defensive lineman Chris Canty this afternoon.
Canty has split his eight NFL seasons evenly between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants, playing 113 career games, making 95 starts.
"Chris is a good player and an upgrade for our defense," general manager Ozzie Newsome said in a statement. "We've seen that in our study, and he has also played very well against us. We like the fact that he is coming from a winning franchise that recently won the Super Bowl with his help. Plus, he can help us at both end and tackle.
"(Ravens coach John Harbaugh) and I met with him for a while last night, and we especially liked the enthusiasm he showed to be a Raven. It's good to add a quality player and person like Chris to our roster."
The Ravens also officially announced that offensive lineman Ramon Harewood and running back Damien Berry were re-signed to one-year deals.
Berry originally signed with the Ravens as a rookie free agent in 2011 and spent his first NFL season on Baltimore's practice squad. He missed all of 2012 after being placed on injured reserve with a neck/shoulder injury during training camp.
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Greeting to all and welcome new friends to the EastWing.
As a nation we continue to share the sadness of that day, 9-11-01. Fifteen years seems like only yesterday. We remember where we were and what we were doing when we became aware. Memories that will never leave.
This September 11, 2016 brings extra sadness to the EastWing. Two dear and long time friends have passed. Rest in peace my friend Jerry Sullivan. I've know Jerry longer than I've know the EastWing. A long time, a long long time, a dear friend. Jerry, a lifetime military man who served his country with distinction. I too will miss him.
Tom Berg was know to many. Tom's life work was talking on the radio. His last job being on the local radio station, WKVI at 99.3 on the FM dial. (www.wkvi.com) I first met Tom shortly after he arrived in Starke County. He's been a friend ever since. Not too long after Tom arrived he told me "I've found my spot in life. Here I'll stay". And so he did. Another friend gone, another sad memory.
As many of my old time friends know, I've always had special interests in weather and old time sayings for weather forecasting. From time to time there's been different types of weather forecasting and recording systems to play with. Last week that all changed. High tech weather data collection and forecasting capability has come to the EastWing. On Tuesday last, I installed a professional grade Personal Weather Station in the front garden of the EastWing, and registered the station at Wunderground. Com.
The weather station is named "At The EastWing" DUD! What else could it be called when the instruments stand just outside the south window, between the glass and the road. We got our unique identification name: KINNORTH19. We also were assigned a unique password to log onto the participation site. Wunderground.com provides live weather information at over 320,000 stations world wide. At The EastWing is one of those.
Depending on what type device you connect to the internet, you can put an app on you smart phone, iPad or other table. The web site is wunderground.com or from the app store search weather and select Weather underground. Once installed just type in your zip code to pull up all stations within your zip code. To find station KINNORTH19 simply type 46366 for the zip code and At The EastWing will be among the list. At that point it's click and go. And from there on you know when it's raining on me.
The weather station is powered by the sun during the daylight and rechargeable batteries at night. Automatically connected to my WIFI, EastWing weather is broadcast live and updated every 5 seconds. The rain volume is calculated by measuring raindrops passing a given point and converted to volume per hour, per day, per week, per month, per year. And to think I used to catch rain droops in a flat bottom tube and look at the meniscus matching the painted numbers on the glass. A step up.
Last Friday was the real test of the new toy. We watched the rain calculation in real time. Being able to switch back a forth between per hour and per day, we saw calculation as high as 6" per hour in the heaviest part of the storm. The final rain volume was 3.38".
I'm also able to make short term forecasts (3 days). And like all good weather prognosticators, if I'm off on my forecasts, oh well, I've got another one coming at you tomorrow. Besides it always sunny somewhere.
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The inner ear refers to that part of the ear where mechanical sound energy is transferred to electrical signals that are then sent through nerves to the brain. It also refers to the part of the ear that assists in the regulation of balance. The inner ear includes the cochlea (hearing) and ...Read more
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One variable that isn't accounted for in this study is the amount of people who were indeed influenced by vendor posts, but either didn't remember or didn't even know it was a piece of vendor media. Advertising and promoted content is becoming so slick that I would bet that I saw vendor content from Samsung before I decided to buy an S5, but if you asked me if vendor media played a role in my purchase, I probably would have said no. Awareness of vendor media may be an issue here.


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Transcriptomic analysis of peritoneal cells in a mouse model of sepsis: confirmatory and novel results in early and late sepsis
Human and rodent genomics
The events leading to sepsis start with an invasive infection of a primary organ of the body followed by an overwhelming systemic response. Intra-abdominal infections are the second most common cause of sepsis. Peritoneal fluid is the primary site of infection in these cases. A microarray-based approach was used to study the temporal changes in cells from the peritoneal cavity of septic mice and to identify potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for this subset of sepsis patients.
We conducted microarray analysis of the peritoneal cells of mice infected with a non-pathogenic strain of
Transcriptional regulators like PLAGL2, EBF1, TCF7, KLF10 and SBNO2, previously not described in sepsis, are differentially expressed at early and late time points. Expression pattern for key biomarkers in this study is similar to that reported in human sepsis, indicating the suitability of this model for future studies of sepsis, and the observed differences in gene expression suggest species differences or differences in the response of blood leukocytes and peritoneal leukocytes.
The hallmark of sepsis is a systemic overwhelming inflammatory response induced by an infectious agent. Despite extensive research, sepsis still remains a leading cause of death in the United States
Sepsis caused by intra-abdominal infections arising from a ruptured appendix, penetrating trauma and peritonitis accounts for about 20% of all sepsis cases
To date, genome wide transcriptional changes in cells isolated from the peritoneal fluid, the primary site of infection in intra-abdominal sepsis have not been reported. Here, using microarrays, we describe temporal (early and late) changes in inflammatory responses in cells from the peritoneal fluid of mice infected with a non-pathogenic strain of
Animal model, bacterial and differential cell counts in peritoneal fluid
The mouse model of intra-abdominal sepsis used here is based on our previous study
Figure 1
Bacterial and cell counts in mouse peritoneal fluid at early and late time points
Bacterial and cell counts in mouse peritoneal fluid at early and late time points. A)
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Survival studies in the mouse model of sepsis. A group of 10 mice were inoculated with of 2 × 108 cells of
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Microarray analysis
We used the Affymetrix 430 2.0 mouse microarray platform to evaluate the early (1 h, 2 h) and late (18 h) changes in the transcriptional profiles of peritoneal cells from
Figure 2
Distribution of significant differentially expressed genes at early and late time points
Distribution of significant differentially expressed genes at early and late time points. Venn diagram showing the distribution of significant differentially expressed (DE) genes at different time points.
Analysis of gene expression at early and late time points
Differences in the transcription profiles between early and late time points, to some extent, will reflect the shift from macrophages to neutrophils. For example, CD86, a co-stimulatory molecule present on macrophages and dendritic cells, implicated in early phases of the immune response,
Figure 3
Expression profiles of differentially expressed immune response genes common to early and late time points
Expression profiles of differentially expressed immune response genes common to early and late time points. Heat map of DE immune response related genes common to 1, 2 h and 18 h time points and significant clusters identified by Short Time Expression Miner (STEM) clustering software. Within each cluster, the number on top represents the profile id and the number at the bottom represents the number of genes with similar profile patterns shown in the same colour. Sig: significant; cyt/chk: cytokine/ chemokine; trans reg: transcription regulator; Gpcr: G-protein coupled receptor; Tr mem rec: Transmembrane receptor; Ldnr: Ligand dependent nuclear receptor; Phosp: Phosphatase.
To confirm that the chosen time points describe molecular events at the early and late stages in sepsis, we looked for expression of markers specific to these stages of sepsis. Adrenomedullin is a member of the calcitonin peptide superfamily, and is a reliable early prognostic marker of sepsis in humans
DE genes unique to time points
Gene expression that is unique to early or late time points is indicative of specific host responses at these stages of infection. The top 5 functions and canonical pathways represented by DE genes unique to early and late time points identified by Ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA) are shown in Table
Figure 4
Relative bias of functions associated with genes unique to 2 h and 18 h
Relative bias of functions associated with genes unique to 2 h and 18 h. The positive, negative and net bias of the gene expression on the top functions associated with significant DE genes unique to 2 h (A) and 18 h (B) evaluated by using
A significant number of DE genes (275) uniquely expressed at 18 h are associated with cell death. Most of these include apoptotic genes involved in the apoptosis of immune cells.
Figure 5
LPS stimulated MAPK pathway representing gene expression changes unique to 18 h
LPS stimulated MAPK pathway representing gene expression changes unique to 18 h. Canonical LPS stimulated MAPK pathway (shown in grey) from Ingenuity pathway analysis. Significant gene expression changes unique to 18 h in this study are highlighted in red (up-regulated) and green (down-regulated).
Analysis of DE genes common to all time points
DE genes (254) common to all time points were subjected to hierarchical clustering and Short Time series Expression Miner (STEM) analysis. The dendrogram associated with the hierarchical clustering revealed that 1 h and 2 h groups were similar to each other compared to 18 h (data not shown). STEM based significant clusters show similar trends of expression (up- or down-regulated) at the early time points.
The top functions of the DE genes common to all time points are related to immune or inflammatory response. Figure
Two profiles (id 38 with 78 genes, and 14 with 18 genes) have opposing trends at early and late time points (Figure
In addition to transcriptional regulators like Rel (NFκBIZ), whose role in inflammation and sepsis is well established, the list of DE immune response related genes common to all time points also has two potentially novel transcription regulators (PLAGL2 and EBF1), not previously known to be involved in sepsis (Table
To increase confidence in the biological interpretation of our microarray data, we determined the concentrations of three cytokines and a chemokine (IL-10, IL-6, IL-1β and MIP-1β), using a multiplex kit. The overall trends in cytokine concentrations were consistent with those observed with microarray except for IL-6. IL-6 protein concentration was highest at 18 h while the gene expression was maximal at 2 h (Figure
Figure 6
Peritoneal fluid cytokine concentrations and corresponding gene expression determined by microarrays
Peritoneal fluid cytokine concentrations and corresponding gene expression determined by microarrays.A) Cytokine concentrations measured by bioplex (n = 5) from the peritoneal fluid of control and naive and infected mice after 1, 2 and 18 h of intraperitoneal inoculation of 2X108 cells of
Sepsis is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States
Sepsis is a result of a complex systemic dysregulation of inflammation that results when the host is unable to contain an infection that usually starts in a primary organ. The inflammatory response to sepsis involves two distinct phases which are not always mutually exclusive. The initial acute phase is the systemic inflammatory response, which is closely followed by the compensatory anti-inflammatory response
The abdomen is the second most common primary site of infection in sepsis. Intra-abdominal infections account for about 20% of all sepsis cases. We used a widely accepted
We compared our results with a recent meta-analysis of 12 studies that evaluated the blood profiles from early and late stages of sepsis from human subjects
An important finding of this study is the identification of 20 transcription regulators among the DE genes, whose role in sepsis was not previously known. Some of the transcription regulators expressed uniquely at 2 and 18 h are known to be involved in T cell regulation. Transcription factor 7 (TCF-7) was up-regulated and Kruppel like factor 10 (KLF10) was down-regulated at 2 h. TCF-7 is a critical regulator of T cell specification
In conclusion, the results of this study provide an evaluation of the changes in the transcriptional profile of peritoneal cells at early and late stages of intra-abdominal sepsis. The pattern of expression of key biomarkers for sepsis in humans is similar to that observed in this study, validating the findings of this study, and suggesting the utility of this model for further studies of sepsis. We identified several novel transcription regulators which might play an important role in immune response to sepsis and could be useful diagnostic markers or therapeutic targets. Future experimental studies are needed to validate and determine the role of these transcription regulators in sepsis.
Mice, treatments, and procedure
We used 12–16 weeks old female C57Bl/6 × C3H F1 mice obtained through the National Cancer Institute's Animal Program for all experiments. The mice were acclimatized for at least two weeks in filter top shoebox cages (5/cage) in a temperature (70-78°F) and humidity (40-60%) controlled environment in accordance with NIH and Louisiana State University regulations. The care and use of mice in this study were approved by the LSU Health Sciences Center Institutional animal care and use committee. Sentinel mice periodically housed in the same room as experimental animals were negative for infectious agents during the period of this study.
We divided mice into control and
Bacterial and cell counts from peritoneal fluid
An aliquot of peritoneal fluid at each time point was serially diluted in Luria Bertani agar to determine the bacterial counts after overnight incubation at 37°C. We centrifuged the remaining peritoneal fluid, and used the pellets for cell counts and RNA extraction, and the supernatant for cytokine/chemokine analysis. The total cell counts were done using Coulter Z1 particle counter (Hialeah, FL). Differential cell counts were determined by cytospin preparations. Following cytospin, the cells were stained with Wright-Giemsa stain and observed under 600 × magnification under an oil immersion lens to differentiate between the different cells types. In order to assess the phagocytosis of bacteria by the macrophages and neutrophils we used a criteria where the cells with three or more bacteria associated were referred to as cells with
A criteria of 3 or more bacteria was used to account for the possibility that some of the bacteria that appeared to be intracellular might actually be on the cell surface. Although the method used here does not provide a precise quantitation of the phagocytosis but it gives a good estimation of the temporal changes in phagocytosis by the different cells types.
Cytokine and chemokine assays
Concentrations of select cytokines and chemokines in peritoneal fluid were determined by Bio-Rad (Hercules, CA) multiplexed bead array kits following manufacturer's protocols and with a BioPlex analyzer (Bio-Rad).
RNA isolation, microarrays and functional analysis
We extracted RNA from the peritoneal cells of
For statistical analysis, a pooled within treatment error was computed and this was used to perform t tests for comparison at each time point i.e. at each time point the control is compared to the treatment group. To account for the false positives, the P values were adjusted for multiple comparisons using a 5% false discovery rate. We used genes that were significantly up- or down-regulated at different time points for further analysis. Differential expression for each gene represents the difference between the expression values of
We analyzed DE genes common to all time points by hierarchical clustering (average linkage clustering metrics and Pearson correlation for the distance) and generated heat maps with TIGR MeV (Multi Experiment Viewer) V4.3.01 software
We identified significant functions, canonical pathways and networks associated with the DE genes using Ingenuity pathway analysis (Ingenuity systems, Redwood City, California, USA). The net effect (positive or negative bias) of gene expression changes specific to 2 and 18 h on the top 5 functions identified by IPA was evaluated using
APACHE: Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; BCL: B-cell leukemia/lymphoma; BCL2L11: BCL2 like 11; CD: Cluster of differentiation; CR: Complement receptor; CXCL: Chemokine (C-X-C) motif ligand; DE: Differentially expressed; EBF1: Early B cell factor 1; GO: Gene ontology; GM-CSF: Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor; H2-OB: Histocompatibility 2 O region beta locus; IFN: Interferon; IL: Interleukin; IPA: Ingenuity pathway analysis; JAK: Janus kinase; LPS: Lipopolysaccharide; MAPK: Mitogen activated protein kinase; MHC: Major histocompatibility complex; MIP: Macrophage inflammatory protein; NF-κB: Nuclear factor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B-cells; PRKCA: Protein kinase C alpha; RANTES: Regulated upon activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted; PLAGL: Pleiomorphic adenoma gene-like 2; SOCS: Suppressor of cytokine signaling; TREM: Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells; TNF: Tumor necrosis factor.
Competing interests
All authors declare no competing interests.
Authors' contribution
MB analysed and interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript, RF performed the experimental procedures, WMM did the statistical analysis of microarray data, SBP designed the study and helped with the data interpretation and manuscript preparation, BN helped with data analysis, interpretation and manuscript preparation. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.
The authors would like to thank Ms Paula Polk at Louisiana State University Health Science Center for her help with the microarray work. This work was funded in part by National Institutes of Health grant R01AA009505 and Mississippi INBRE funded by grants from the National Center for Research Resources (5P20RR016476-11), and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (8 P20 GM103476-11) from the National Institutes of Health.
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