Project description:It is unclear why preterm birth increases risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. Studies in mice indicate excess oxygen typically used to treat preterm infants causes pulmonary hypertension, cardiac failure, and shortens lifespan. We previously reported neonatal hyperoxia causes pulmonary hypertension in aged mice as defined pathologically by pulmonary capillary rarefaction, dilation of pulmonary arterioles and veins, right ventricular hypertrophy, and reduced lifespan. These changes were preceded by a pronounced growth inhibition of cardiomyocytes lining the pulmonary vein and extending into the left atria, resulting in diastolic heart failure as the mice aged. To identify transcriptional changes by which hyperoxia suppresses proliferation of these cardiomyocytes, newborn mice were exposed to room air or 100% oxygen between birth and postnatal day 4. RNA was then isolated from atria of 3 room air and 4 hyperoxia-exposed mice and used to probe Affymetrix mouse array 430 versus 2.0
Project description:Transcriptional profiling by array of mouse wild-type and Insulin receptor (InsR)/Igf1 receptor (Igf1R) double knockout mutant Sertoli cells from testis at embryonic day E17.5 and Postnatal day 5
Project description:Sphingosine Kinase-1 knock out protects against hyperoxic lung injury One day old Wild type (WT) control and Sphingosine Kinase-1 knock out (SphK-1 KO)pups exposed to room air (RA) or hyperoxia (HO). Microarray based profiling of lung tissue after 7 days of hyperoxia of 75%
Project description:Transcription profiling by array of lung tissues from wild-type male and female C56BL/6J mice either maintained in room air or exposed to hyperoxia (FiO2>95%) for 48 hours
Project description:It is unclear why preterm birth increases risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. Studies in mice indicate excess oxygen used to treat preterm infants causes pulmonary hypertension, cardiac failure, and shortens lifespan. We previously reported neonatal hyperoxia causes pulmonary hypertension in aged mice as defined pathologically by pulmonary capillary rarefaction, dilation of pulmonary arterioles and veins, right ventricular hypertrophy, and reduced lifespan. Here, affymetrix gene arrays were used to identify early transcriptional changes in lungs of young adult mice exposed to room air or 100% oxygen between postnatal days 0-4.
Project description:This experiment aimed to investigate the differences in the transcriptional profile of the neurogenic niche regions of mouse pups that were raised in room air verses mouse pups that were exposed to hyperoxia during the neonatal period. Pups were housed in room air or hyperoxia (85% O2) from P0 to P14. Brain tissue (the subventricular zone and the hippocampus) was collected at P14 and 12 months of age. RNA was extracted from the brain tissue and the microarray labelling, hybridization, and scanning was conducted by the Génome Québec Innovation Centre (Montréal, Canada).