Author:
Van Acker Sara I.,Van Acker Zoë P.,Haagdorens Michel,Pintelon Isabel,Koppen Carina,Zakaria Nadia
Abstract
AbstractThe introduction of tissue engineering has allowed scientists to push the boundaries and treat seriously damaged ocular surface epithelia. They have managed to do this through the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain or improve tissue function. To ensure the generation of a therapeutically safe and effective graft, knowledge on the transcriptional profile of native and cultured ocular surface epithelia is of undeniable value. Gene expression studies are, however, only as reliable as their proper selection of internal reaction controls or reference genes. In this study, we determined the expression stability of a number of reference genes: 18s rRNA, ACTB, ATP5B, CyC1, EIF4A2, GAPDH, RPL13A, SDHA, TOP1, UBC, and YWHAZ in primary isolates as well as in ex vivo cultured ocular surface epithelia explants (day 0 and/or day 14). Expression stability of the reference genes was assessed with both the geNorm and NormFinder software that use a pairwise comparison and a model-based approach, respectively. Our results extend the general recommendation of using multiple reference genes for normalization purposes to our model systems and provide an overview of several references genes that are likely to be stable in similar culture protocols.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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