Research Article

Gene Expression Profiling of the Sciatic Nerve in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats with Peripheral Neuropathy

Figure 1

Study workflow. After STZ treatment, 27 out of the 30 rats in experimental group were verified as diabetes and the remaining 3 rats were excluded from the study. Note that no rats were dead due to diabetes or anesthesia during the course of study. After neurological tests, rats were sacrificed without collecting the sciatic nerve tissues for the following experiments. Besides, total RNA isolated for microarray analysis was not used for qRT-PCR.