Project description:Effect of 17beta-oestradiol (E2) on gene expression in human cardiac tissues and the interaction between the treatment with E2 and the sex.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of sex on gene expression in LV of AS patients at the time of AVR. LV samples of men (n = 9; age: 75 M-1 8 y) and women (n = 10; age: 72 M-1 9 y) undergoing AVR were used for RNA isolation. Genome-wide expression profiling was performed using the Affymetrix platform and the data were analyzed with R and Bioconductor. Diseased samples were compared with LV samples of men (n = 10; age: 56 M-1 4 y) and women (n = 8; age: 56 M-1 5 y) with no apparent cardiovascular disorder.
Project description:Doxorubicin (DOXO), a chemotherapeutic drug, is cardiotoxic. We hypothesized that folic acid is an effective therapeutic agent in a mouse model of DOXO-induced cardiotoxicity. We performed genome-wide expression profiling to identify the underlying mechanisms. Male C57Bl6 2-mo old mice received DOXO (1x20 mg/kg, ip) or saline (sham). FA (10 mg/d) or placebo (plac) was administered 7d before DOXO administration until the end of the experiment (10d).
Project description:The heart of late pregnant (LP) rodents is more prone to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury compared to non-pregnant rodents. We hypothesized that Intralipid (ITLD) protects the heart in LP rodents against I/R injury. We performed genome-wide expression profiling to identify the underlying mechanisms. Female LP rat hearts were subjected to ischemia followed by reperfusion with vehicle or ITLD (one bolus of 5mg/kg).
Project description:Most epithelial ovarian cancers are thought to arise from different cells in the ovarian or fallopian tube epithelium. We hypothesized that these distinct cells-of-origin may play a role in determining ovarian tumor phenotype and also could inform the molecular classification of ovarian cancer. To test this hypothesis, we developed new methods to isolate and culture paired normal human ovarian (OV) and fallopian tube (FT) epithelial cells from multiple donors without cancer and identified a cell-of-origin gene expression signature that distinguished these cell types within the same patient. Application of the OV versus FT cell-of-origin gene signature to gene expression profiles of primary ovarian cancers permitted identification of distinct OV and FT-like subgroups among these cancers. Importantly, the normal FT-like tumor classification correlated with a significantly worse disease-free survival. This work describes a new experimental method for culture of normal human OV and FT epithelial cells from the same patient. These findings provide new evidence that cell-of-origin is an important source of ovarian tumor heterogeneity and the associated differences in tumor phenotype. We analyzed 12 samples from two donor patients and established cultures of both ovarian epithelium and fallopian tube epithelium (hTERT immortalized), each with 3 replicates (different culture passages).
Project description:Mesenchymal Stem Cells have been seeded on calcium based biomaterials. miRNA expression is evaluated at day 0 (unseeded cells), day 5, and day 10, in order to study miRNA differential expressions at different time points and infer if biomaterial induced miRNA expression variation able to differentiate stem cells towards the osteoblasts lineage.
Project description:The purpose of this experiment was to identify oestrogen regulated genes in human primary cell cultures of neuronal cells modelling the developing human nervous system. We were especially interested in genes involved in proliferation, differentiation and migration of neuronal cells and genes involved in or linked to neurodegenerative diseases. We have therefore assessed gene expression changes, using Affymetrix GeneChips (HG-U133A), of oestrogen treated human neuronal cell cultures. Experiment Overall Design: Primary neuronal cell cultures were established from human brain tissue, which was obtained from 8-12 weeks old fetuses at legal abortion after informed consent from the patients. Procedures were approved by the local Ethics committee at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. A total of 28 tissue samples yielding 10 cell cultures were used in this experiment. Half of the cell cultures were treated with 2µM β-oestradiol the day after seeding. The duration of the oestrogen treatment was 7 days and the cells were harvested after 8 days of culturing for RNA extraction. Extracted RNA from untreated respectively oestrogen treated cell cultures were pooled yielding two samples, which were each hybridised to Affymetrix microarrys.
Project description:The F5 generation of a wild-caught population of zebrafish (Danio rerio) from Mymensingh, Bangladesh, were used in this study. Replicate experiments were carried out with adult male fish aged 9 months. Each group was maintained in a 50L tank at 27M-11.5M-:C and 12:12h dark:light photoperiod and fed bloodworms (Ocean NutritionM-^Y, Belgium) to satiety for one week. The experimental protocol involved fasting fish for 7 days and subsequent refeeding a single meal of bloodworms delivered over a 3h period, after which any uneaten food was removed from the tank. Seven fish were sampled at -156, -24, 0 (prior to the meal), 0.75, 3, 6, 7.5, 9, 11, 24, 36h and killed humanely by an overdose of ethyl 3-aminobenzoate methanesulfonate salt (MS-222). Six samples from the 0, 3, and 6h time-points were used in the microarray hybridization.
Project description:Colon cancer is one of the most common tumors worldwide. Recent reports showed that patients treated with the antidepressant fluoxetine had reduced colon cancer risk, with effects similar to the chemotherapeutic 5-fluoro-uracil. Here, we examined the effects of fluoxetine and 5-fluoro-uracil on gene expression of HT29 colon cancer cell xenografts. HT29 xenografts in NOD/SCID mice were treated with vehicle (physiological solution), fluoxetine (30mg/kg/day), or 5-Fluoro-uracil (50 mg/kg/day).