Figure 4. Tissue-specific gene expression. Venn diagram showing the number of genes expressed at elevated levels in various mouse tissues harvested 24 h following irradiation with 2 Gy (panel A) or 0.2 Gy (panel B)
-rays. The samples were hybridised to microarrays of 4105 murine cDNAs. Note that although a small number of genes responded in all tissues examined, the majority were specific to one tissue. Reproduced from Amundson et al [36] with permission.