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Toxicogenomic analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans reveals novel genes and pathways involved in the resistance to cadmium toxicity

Yuxia Cui1, Sandra J McBride1, Windy A Boyd2, Scott Alper3,4 and Jonathan H Freedman1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA

2 Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA

3 Laboratory of Environmental Lung Disease, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

4 Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27707, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R122 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-6-r122

Published: 25 June 2007

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Additional data file 1:

Cadmium-responsive genes that have been mapped to biological processes and molecular functions following 4 and 24 h cadmium exposures.

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Genes up- or down-regulated (≥1.5 fold, p < 0.001) following 4 h and 24 h cadmium exposures.

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Significantly enriched biological processes following 4 h and 24 h cadmium exposures and genes in the pathway that are cadmium-responsive.

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Significantly enriched molecular functions following 4 h and 24 h cadmium exposures and genes in the pathway that are cadmium-responsive.

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Cadmium-responsive genes tested in the first round RNAi screen.

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Effect of RNAi and cadmium on C. elegans body size in the second round RNAi screen using COPAS BioSort.

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Primer sequences used in qRT-PCR.

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