Figure 4
Selected pathways from functional pathway analysis between complicated aged and young patients after severe traumatic injury. Functional pathway analysis on day 1 after injury showed that complicated aged patients had significantly downregulated pathways involved in cell survival, function, chemotaxis, immune cell trafficking and hematological system development categories. Graphs display the category broken down into the various subcategories and their corresponding significance level (*Z-score <-2; downregulated). (A) Functional analysis on day 1 after severe traumatic injury showed that aged patients had either an upregulation or down regulation of genes leading to a significant overall downregulation of pathways in the cell death and survival category (that is, cell survival, cell viability, apoptosis of myeloid cell pathways) compared to controls. Young complicated traumatic injury patients did not reach a similar significance. (B) Similarly, functional analysis on day one showed that aged patients had either an upregulation or downregulation of genes leading to a significant overall downregulation of pathways involved in the cellular function and maintenance category (that is, autophagy of cells, leukocyte and blood cell function and cellular homeostasis pathways) as compared to controls. Again, complicated young trauma patients did not reach a similar significance.