Figure 4. Ontology of stretch responsive genes

In order to generate biologically relevant groups of genes from the microarray data, we used the NIH DAVID version 1.0 software. This separated the data into three broad categories of biological process (A), molecular function (B), and cellular component (C). This analysis provides a generalized view of the global expression changes that took place in the LC cells following 24 h of cyclical mechanical stretching. Ontological categories are represented on the y-axis and the number of genes belonging to each category are represented on the x-axis.