2015 Volume 13 Issue 6 Pages 332-334
To establish a system for the early diagnosis of respiratory diseases, we developed a method for analyzing RNA sequence data obtained by next-generation sequencer identify genes showing altered expression as biomarkers of respiratory tract infection. The respiratory tracts of mice were exposed to lipopolysaccharide to establish a model of respiratory disease. Twenty-five genes exhibited significantly altered RNA expression following exposure. We identified non-coding RNAs in five regions that could be candidate biomarkers of respiratory diseases.