Figure 1

Gene expression changes in DEX-treated primary chondrocytes. Microarray and quantitative RT-PCR expression profiles of the Glucocorticoid receptor (Nr3c1) in primary mesenchymal micromass cultures (A). Primary chondrocytes are plated in high density monolayers and treated with DEX or vehicle for 24 hrs and counted with a hemocytometer (B). Ordered list of global microarray data set derived from the hybridization of RNA isolated from primary chondrocytes treated with 10^-7 M DEX and the vehicle (v) control (C, left panel). One-Way ANOVA testing for significantly expressed probe sets between DEX-treated samples and the vehicle control resulted in a list of 1158 transcripts. Mean normalized signal intensities for all 1158 probe sets are shown (C, right panel). Fold change filtering of these transcripts reveal that the majority of probe sets vary in the range of 1 to 2-fold (D).