Kriete A, Anderson MK, Love B, Freund J, Caffrey JJ, Young MB, Sendera TJ, Magnuson SR, Braughler JM. Combined histomorphometric and gene-expression profiling applied to toxicology.
Genome Biol 2003;
4:R32. [PMID:
12734012 PMCID:
PMC156588 DOI:
10.1186/gb-2003-4-5-r32]
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Abstract
We have developed a unique methodology for the combined analysis of histomorphometric and gene-expression profiles amenable to intensive data mining and multisample comparison for a comprehensive approach to toxicology. This hybrid technology, termed extensible morphometric relational gene-expression analysis (EMeRGE), is applied in a toxicological study of time-varied vehicle- and carbon-tetrachloride (CCl4)-treated rats, and demonstrates correlations between specific genes and tissue structures that can augment interpretation of biological observations and diagnosis.
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