Comparison of flagellin-induced differential gene expression in ALI cultures of AECs.

<p>Although only a few genes were statistically significantly differentially expressed in ALI-cultured AECs in response to flagellin, we evaluated two top candidates (CCL20, ICAM1) using qPCR. However, note that even these two candidate genes were more significantly up-regulated following flagellin exposure in the monolayer culture system compared to ALI culture. For each condition, mean value ± standard deviation is shown.