Figure 5

GPCRs whose high expression is associated with specific subsegments of the GI tract. The figure shows GPCRs whose levels were found to be markedly higher in a given segment relative to the expression level in other adjacent segments. For each region, two or three genes with the highest regionally specific expression levels are shown. To better illustrate the extent to which a given gene is highly expressed in a subsegment-specific manner compared with adjacent segments, a three-level system was adopted using the * symbol, assigning none, one or two symbols to each gene. The greater the deviation in expression level is from the surrounding expression pattern, the more asterisks have been assigned for a given gene. It should be noted that the distal duodenum and the cecum are not shown in the figure since no region-specific high gene expression levels were found for these two segments.