The tissue was pulverized in liquid nitrogen to a powder. Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol Reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). The purity and integrity of the RNA were assessed by the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA) and its quantity was determined by NanoDrop spectrophotometer (NanoDrop Technologies, Wilmington, DE).
Label
biotin
Label protocol
Biotinylated cRNA were prepared according to the standard Affymetrix protocol from 6 ug total RNA (Expression Analysis Technical Manual, 2001,
Hybridization protocol
Following fragmentation, 10 ug of cRNA were hybridized for 16 hr at 45C on GeneChip Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0. GeneChips were washed and stained in the Affymetrix Fluidics
Scan protocol
GeneChips were scanned using the Hewlett-Packard GeneArray Scanner G2500A.
Description
Gene expression data from normal adrenal gland
Data processing
The data were analyzed with GeneSpring 7.3 using Affymetrix default analysis settings and global scaling as normalization method. The trimmed mean target intensity of each array was arbitrarily set to 1.