Transcription profiling of human pancreas from patients with type 1 diabetes (clinical onset and longstanding)

ABSTRACT: Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease caused by the destruction of the insulin producing beta cells. We characterized the gene expression profile of pancreatic tissue from four type 1 diabetes patients (Cases 1-4), who died at different stages of the disease (onset and longstanding) by microarray analysis. All samples from patients and controls were obtained after death, at the time of organ donation. Pancreatic blocks from the four diabetic patients and three organ donors (Controls 1-3) were obtained and snap frozen. At the same time, islets from Cases 1 and 4 were isolated from a piece of the pancreas tail by enzymatic digestion (using automated method and handpicking) and snap frozen. Islets from three different organ donors (Controls 4-6) were obtained similarly to those of the diabetic patients. Both pancreatic blocks and islets were stored in liquid nitrogen until the mRNA extraction. For pancreas gene expression profiles, we compared data from three blocks of each of the four type 1 diabetic pancreas with pancreases data from the Controls 1-3. For islets expression profile, we compared data from Cases 1 and 4 islets with islets data from the Controls 4-6.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: MARTA VIVES-PI 

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-1140 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress