在临床调查中筛选出一个典型肾阳虚证家系,选取典型肾阳虚证患者3例及家系内正常人3例进行表达谱芯片试验.芯片分析结果显示,肾阳虚证者表达上调基因106条,下调基因16条.通过基因功能分类及深入的基因功能富集分析发现,肾阳虚证与GnRH信号通路及氧化磷酸化密切相关(P≤0.05),从而为肾阳虚证本质的研究提供了新的思路,但具体的机制有待深入研究.
A typical deficiency-cold syndrome pedigree were analyzed based on clinical investigation, and microarrays were made to examine expression profile of kidney-yang deficiency syndrome. Compared with normal members in the family, members with kidney-yang deficiency syndrome showed that there were 106 genes up-regulated and 16 down-regulated by at least 1.5 fold. Gene classification and gene function enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes indicated that kidney-yang deficiency syndrome was closely associated with GnRH signaling pathway and oxidative phosphorylation ( P ≤ 0.05), but the exact mechanisms keeps unknown.