In this study we analyzed the gene expression profiles of human monocytes and monocyte-dervied-macrophages. Keywords: Gene expression profiling
Overall design
Blood samples were obtained from 86 patients with symptoms of acute coronary syndrome who had undergone coronary angiography at the department of cardiology of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris and who had on stenosis > 50 % diagnosed in at least one major coronary artery. 48 monocyte and 48 macrophage samples (38 pools of 2 samples and 10 individual samples for each type of RNA) were hybridized to the RNG/MRC platform.