Project description:Acute stress provides many beneficial effects whereas chronic stress contributes to a variety of human health problems. The objective of this study was to use a rodent model to uncover hippocampal gene signatures associated with prolonged chronic stress which could potentially serve as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for early diagnosis and pharmacological intervention for stress induced disease. Mice were subjected to restraint stress over 7 consecutive days and gene expression changes in the hippocampus were analyzed at 3, 12 and 24 hours following the final restraint treatment. Data indicated that mice exposed to chronic restraint stress exhibit a differential gene expression profile compared to non-stressed controls. The greatest differences were observed 12 and 24 hrs following the final stress test.
Project description:30-day-old Cftr-/- homozygous for the S489X, B6.129P2-Cftr(tm1Unc), mutation or sibling wild-type control mice were treated with standard chow or 20 mg/kg/d rosiglitazone for 5 days. Colonic epithelial cells were extracted and mRNA isolated. Cftr-/- mice suffer from a severe intestinal phenotype including ileo-colonic obstruction resulting from the accumulation of mucin and inspissated material in the lumen.
Project description:Aortic valve calcification is a significant and serious clinical problem for which there are no effective medical treatments. Individuals born with bicuspid aortic valves, 1-2% of the population, are at the highest risk of developing aortic valve calcification. Aortic valve calcification involves increased levels of calcification and inflammatory genes. Bicuspid aortic valve leaflets experience increased strain. The molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of calcification of BAVs are not well understood, especially the molecular response to mechanical stretch. HOTAIR is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) that has been implicated with cancer but has not been studied in cardiac disease. We have found that HOTAIR levels are decreased in BAVs and in human aortic interstitial cells (AVICs) exposed to cyclic stretch. Reducing HOTAIR levels via siRNA in AVICs results in increased expression of calcification genes.
Project description:Time course data from thapsigargin-stimulated ER stress for 8 and 24 hours, in order to elucidate factors that influence T cell priming.
Project description:Short- and long-interval response of JY cells treated with Trichostatin A (TSA), used in gene pathway analysis. <br><br>Please note that the "Target IDs" used in the user submitted data files have been mapped to Illumina Probe_Ids (as recommended by Illumina) and this mapping is not 1 to 1. Original user submitted files have been included in the .mageml.tar.gz archive on the FTP site for this experiment.
Project description:A highly specific and potent small molecule antagonist of CRTH2 (chemoattractant receptor) was used to investigate the role of this Prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) receptor in chronic models of cutaneous inflammation and the underlying immune response. These RNA samples are from mice that were in a chronic (50 day) model of atopic dermatitis. Each mouse had a section of back skin patched with a gauze, and the RNA was from the patched area of skin; the control mice had the gauze soaked in PBS, whereas all the other test mice had the gauze soaked in ovalbumin dissolved in PBS. The ovalbumin acts as an allergen and induces the experimental atopic dermatitis. The six groups of mice that received the OVA patch were treated in different ways:some received just the drug vehicle during the OVA patching, others received the test drug (compound A) at 3 different concentrations: 10 mg/kg 1 mg/kg and 0.1 mg/kg. Two other cohorts received positive control drugs: ramatroban and dexamethasone .Each different sample represents a different animal.
Project description:A paired analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) isolated before and after antiretroviral therapy (ART) from a robust number of HIV-infected patients (N=36). Results identify a total of 4,157 DEGs following ART in HIV-infected participants and the transition from a period of active virus replication before ART to one of viral suppression This study evaluated PBMC gene expression in cells from 36 (4 dropped from analysis) recently HIV-infected individuals to identify differentially expressed genes following 48 weeks of ART
Project description:gp130Act cDNA was PCR-amplified and inserted into a plasmid containing the 12.4-kb Villin promoter. The 15.7-kb expression cassette was excised by PmeI digestion, purified, and injected into fertilized C57BL/6 oocytes to obtain founder mice, two of which transmitted the gp130Act transgene. Small intestinal crypts were isolated from WT and villin-gp130Act Tg small intestines. Total RNA was isolated from the isolated crypts using the RNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen) and used for microarray analysis.
Project description:A quantitative proteomics combined with stable isotope labeling was applied to identify the global profile of miR-148a-regulated downstream proteins in AGS cancer cells. For proteomic analysis, cells were treated with miR-148a mimic (Pre-miR-148a) or miR-148a negative control (miR-CTL) and the downstream protein expression level (Pre-miR-148a/miR-CTL) were quantified using iTRAQ approach. Bioinformatics pipeline: The peak list in the resultant MS/MS spectra were generated by Mascot Distiller v2.1.1.0 and searched using Mascot v2.2 against the International Protein Index (IPI) human database (v. 3.64, 84032 sequences). The Mascot search parameters were +-0.1 Da for MS tolerance, +-0.1 Da for MS/MS mass tolerance, allowances for two missed cleavages, and variable modifications of deamidation (NQ), oxidation (M), iTRAQ (N terminal), iTRAQ (K), and MMTS (C). Protein quantitation were calculated using the Multi-Q software v1.6.5.4 with a dynamic range filter of ion count > 30.