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Transcription profiling of human dermal pericytes compared to the remaining dermal cells of neonatal human foreskin

ABSTRACT: Pericytes derived from skin dermis can substantially enhance the short-term tissue-regenerative capacity of human epidermal cells already committed to differentiation; they also display both phenotypic and functional properties of mesenchymal stem cells. In this microarray analysis, we compared the gene expression profile of dermal pericytes to that of the remaining dermal cells of neonatal human foreskin. Experiment Overall Design: Human neonatal foreskin was digested overnight in dispase II at 4Â°C to separate the epidermis from the dermis. Subsequently the dermis was digested for 1-2 hours at 37Â°C in a mixed dispase and collagenase solution and then fractionated into two populations, i.e. pericytes (HD-1bri) and the remaining dermal cells (HD-1dim), on the basis of differential VLA-1 expression using fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Total RNA from 15,000 cells of each population was extracted from 4 independent replicate sorts. mRNAs were amplified using a T7-primer-based-2-round linear RNA amplification protocol (GeneChip Two-Cycle cDNA synthesis kit). Fragmented and biotin-labelled cRNA from each individual sample was hybridised to Affymetrix HG-U133 plus 2.0 arrays and scanned on a Affymetrix GeneChip scanner. Probe intensities were RMA normalized and log2-transformed expression values were compared using moderated t statistics to quantify differences between individual samples.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Holger Schlueter

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-17014 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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A role for pericytes as microenvironmental regulators of human skin tissue regeneration.

Paquet-Fifield Sophie S Schlüter Holger H Li Amy A Aitken Tara T Gangatirkar Pradnya P Blashki Daniel D Koelmeyer Rachel R Pouliot Normand N Palatsides Manuela M Ellis Sarah S Brouard Nathalie N Zannettino Andrew A Saunders Nick N Thompson Natalie N Li Jason J Kaur Pritinder P

The Journal of clinical investigation 20090803 9

The cellular and molecular microenvironment of epithelial stem and progenitor cells is poorly characterized despite well-documented roles in homeostatic tissue renewal, wound healing, and cancer progression. Here, we demonstrate that, in organotypic cocultures, dermal pericytes substantially enhanced the intrinsically low tissue-regenerative capacity of human epidermal cells that have committed to differentiate and that this enhancement was independent of angiogenesis. We used microarray analysi ...[more]

PMID: 19652362

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Transcription profiling of human dermal pericytes compared to the remaining dermal cells of neonatal human foreskin

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A role for pericytes as microenvironmental regulators of human skin tissue regeneration.

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