Gene modulation associated with inhibition of liver regeneration in hepatitis B virus X transgenic mice

Figure 1 Expression levels of SAA3 (A) and IL-6R (B) transcripts in livers obtained from LacZ and HBx-LacZ transgenic mice. RNA was isolated before (T0) and 48 h after (T48) partial hepatectomy from the liver of two HBx-expressing (HBx-LacZ) and two control (LacZ) transgenic mice. The level of transcript expression was analyzed by quantitative RT-PCR and expressed as relative ratios after normalization with β actin values. The means of the relative ratio values and standard error were obtained from at least two independent experiments performed in duplicate.