Table 1

Experimental groups used for adoptive disease transfer and differential expression analysis
Group
 RNA source
 Treatment
 Days after injection
 No. of animals
AN
 Naive control (absolute negative) BALB/cSCID paw
 None
 N/A
 3
PA
 Normal paw from arthritic BALB/cSCID mouse
 Cell transfer
 6
 3
AA
 Acute arthritic paw of BALB/cSCID mouse
 Cell transfer
 6
 5
CA
 Chronically arthritic paw of BALB/cSCID mouse
 Cell transfer
 12–14
 3

Group AN represents naive BALB/cSCID mice that received no cells. Experimental groups PA, AA, and CA received antigen-stimulated lymphocytes from arthritic BALB/c donor mice. RNA was isolated from four paws of two mice at the indicated number of days after injection, and pooled.

Adarichev et al. Arthritis Res Ther 2005 7:R196   doi:10.1186/ar1472