Table 7. Relative gene expression in the liver after 6 h of acute thermal stress at 30°C

Recovery time (h) hsp70 irf3 gpx cox ampkβ pparα pparγ g6pase
0 1.00 ± 0.08a 1.00 ± 0.49b 1.00 ± 0.19bc 1.00 ± 0.14a 1.00 ± 0.25a 1.00 ± 0.38b 1.00 ± 0.16 1.00 ± 0.23cd
2 0.15 ± 0.09b 0.53 ± 0.35b 2.45 ± 0.02a 0.24 ± 0.08b 0.08 ± 0.02b 1.31 ± 0.46b 0.92 ± 0.32 2.58 ± 0.72a
4 0.02 ± 0.00c 1.27 ± 0.39b 1.62 ± 0.49b 0.47 ± 0.17b 0.06 ± 0.02b 0.97 ± 0.87b 1.11 ± 0.31 0.56 ± 0.14d
6 0.00 ± 0.00c 6.08 ± 6.20a 0.96 ± 0.30bc 0.45 ± 0.11b 0.13 ± 0.04b 0.62 ± 0.41b 0.95 ± 0.20 0.62 ± 0.22d
12 0.00 ± 0.00c 0.88 ± 0.44b 0.76 ± 0.38c 0.50 ± 0.19b 0.13 ± 0.03b 1.18 ± 0.44b 0.80 ± 0.29 0.80 ± 0.25cd
24 0.00 ± 0.00c 2.34 ± 0.71b 1.15 ± 0.15bc 0.50 ± 0.21b 0.17 ± 0.06b 4.38 ± 2.18a 0.78 ± 0.17 1.38 ± 0.28bc
48 0.00 ± 0.00c 1.54 ± 0.62b 1.19 ± 0.20bc 0.68 ± 0.29ab 0.12 ± 0.04b 5.45 ± 2.21a 1.07 ± 0.25 1.83 ± 0.59b
p-value < 0.0001 < 0.0001 0.0086 0.0163 < 0.0001 < 0.0001 0.2562 0.0173
Values are means from triplicate groups of juvenile olive flounder where the values in each row with different superscripts are significantly different (mean ± SEM; p < 0.05).
Relative gene expression level (recovery time at 0 h was set as a control; 18s used as housekeeping gene).
hsp70, heat shock protein 70; irf3, interferon regulatory factor 3; gpx, glutathione peroxidase; cox, cytochrome c oxidase; ampkβ, adenosine-activated protein kinase beta; pparα, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors alpha; pparγ, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors gamma; g6pase, glucose-6-phosphatase.