Fig. 1: PM exposure changes the characteristics of macrophages.
From: Particulate matter promotes cancer metastasis through increased HBEGF expression in macrophages
a Volcano plots of differentially expressed genes in THP1 cells after treatment with the indicated PM types for 24 h. b Multidimensional scaling (MDS) plot of RNA-seq expression profiles in two dimensions. c Heatmap of 452 differentially expressed human cytokine and growth factor genes between THP1-Control cells and THP1-PM2.5, THP1-PM10, and THP1-KRPM cells identified by RNA-seq. d Venn diagram of upregulated cytokines and growth factors. e Venn diagram of downregulated cytokines and growth factors.
