Description
Our study looks at the dirsruption of lung circadian transcriptome that occurs when neutrophils are depleted (by application of antibodies (anti-Ly6G-1A8) to wildtype C57BL/6 mice, or Diphtheria toxin (DT) to neutrophil-specific DT-susceptible mice (MRP8-Cre;iDTR-flox)). Overall design: Lungs were harvested from neutrophil-depleted (antibody or DT) or non-depleted mice, in normal light-controlled mouse facility (ZT4) or 12h inverted light cabinets (ZT16). Experiments were carried out over 3 batches (July 2017, September 2017, and April 2018), with 3 or 4 mice per group. Antibody-depleted and non-depleted mice were tested for the July 2017 and September 2017 batches, whereas DT-depleted mice were tested only in April 2018.