Gene Ontology Gene Function Gene Symbols (Fold-change STN vs Sham, p-value)
Ribosome biogenesis & translational elongation ribosomal protein small subunits and basic leucine zipper, translational initiation Rps14 (1.66, 0.018), Rps23 (1.73, 0.017), Rps19 (1.58, 0.030), Rps11 (1.61, 0.0187), Rps18 (1.52, 0.0243), Rps24 (1.61, 0.0441), Rps2-ps5(1.50, 0.0118 ), Rpl24 (1.52, 0.0484), Rpl37a (1.57, 0.0338), Rpl35a (1.5, 0.033),Bzw1 (-1.62, 0 .043)
Nucleosome assembly histone 1 and histone 3 hist1h2bm (1.95, 0.045), hist1h2bf (1.54, 0.0331), hist3h2bb (1.64, 0.0355)
Ubiquitine-dependent proteolysis & catalytic actibity proteasome subunit, ubiquitin specific protease, ubiquitin-fold modifier conjugating enzyme,  RAS oncogene, may be involved in phagosome maturation, adaptor-related protein,protein lysosome targeting, N-glycanase (proteosome degradation of misfolded proteins), WAP four-disulfide core domain 2, protease inhibitor, phosphotriesterase related, catabolism Psma3 (-1.52, 0.0152), Psma4 (-1.66, 0.0236), Psmd6 (-1.68, 0.0297), Usp16 (-1.52, 0.0484), Usp14 (-1.59, 0.0395), Ufc1 (-1.68, 0.0472), Rab14 (-2.12, 0.024), Rab2a (-1.73, 0.0263), Rab11a (-1.67, 0.0275), Rabif (1.59, 0.0299), Ap3m1(-1.98, 0.0198), Ngly1 (-1.56, 0.0272),Wfdc2 (-3.13, 0.0433), Pter (-1,54, 0.0467)
Lipid catabolism phospholipase A2 Pla2g4c (-1.13, 0.0287
Proteolysis mast cell protease, may be involved in cardiac hypertrophy MCPT2 (-4.39, 0.0729*)
ER- Golgy transport syntaxin, Golgi & post Golgy transport, endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase, vacuolar protein sorting 29, lectin, mannose-binding, involved in ER to Golgi transport Stx7 (-1.86, 0.0333), Erap1 (-1.52, 0.0472), Vps29 (-1.88, 0.0348, Lman1 (-1.60, 0.0256)
Apoptosis BCL2-like 13 (apoptosis facilitator), epithelial membrane protein 2 Bcl2l13 (-1.63, 0.0157), Emp2 (-2.18, 0.0491)
Inflammation interleukin 13 receptor, lymphocyte antigen 6 Il13ra1 (-1.70, 0.0267), Ly6al (-1.98, 0.0518)
Transcriptional regulation & RNA processing MAX interactor, myc transcriptional repressor, COMM domain, transcription regulator, RNA terminal phosphate cyclase, Cbp/p300-interacting transactivator, transcription coactivator Mxi1 (-1.85, 0.0227), Commd3 (-2.01, 0.0231), Rtcd1 (-1.52, 0.0278), Cited4 (-1.73, 0.0480)
Protein folding chaperonin containing TCP1, unfolded protein binding, t-complex, chaperon for actin & tubulin Cct8 (-1.53, 0.0134), Tcp1 (-1.72, 0.0158)
Ca2+-binding & cardiac contraction scinderin, Ca(2+)-dependent actin-severing and -capping, calcium binding protein Scin (-3.27, 0.0363), Chp (-1.57, 0.0255)
Adhesion, differentiation & cell growth intercellular adhesion molecule 1, thioredoxin domain, acossiated with cell differentiation, secretoglobin, negative regulator of cell growth, ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 3 Icam1 (-1.51, 0.0358), Txndc9 (-1.61, 0.0323), scgb3a1 (-13.86, 0.0326), Enpp3 (-1.95, 0.0367)
Oxidation-reduction selenoprotein, may be involved in oxidation-reduction reacts, isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (NADP+) Sepw1 (1.61, 0.0093), Idh1 (1.61, 0.0380)
Table 2: A list of differentially expressed genes (FC> +1.5 or FC< -1.5 and p<0.05), revealed from microarray experiment, that are affiliated with KEGG pathways specific to the cardiac structure or function, is presented (STN versus Sham) (important genes having exceptional p-values>0.05 are marked in a red asterisk). We selected genes demonstrating best differential expression in the STN group relative to sham. The turquoise highlight refers to genes whose relative expression was also tested by RT PCR; the green highlight demonstrates statistical significance in real-time analysis.