Conventional animal tests such as leukocytosis promoting tests have been used for decades to evaluate toxicity of pertussis vaccine. Here, we examined gene expression in relation to the vaccine toxicity using a DNA microarray. Comparison of conventional animal test data with the DNA microarray-based gene expression data revealed a gene expression pattern highly correlated with leukocytosis in animals. Of 10,490 rat genes analyzed, two genes, alpha1-acid-glycoprotein (Agp) and hemopexin (Hpx), were found up-regulated by the toxin administration in a dose-dependent manner (assayed by a quantitative PCR based on the microarray). Variation of the gene expression was very small amongst the test animals, and the results were highly reproducible. These findings suggest that gene expression analysis of vaccine-treated animals can be used as an accurate and simple method of pertussis vaccine safety assessment.
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