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Project description:Vitamin A deficiency affects gene expression in the Drosophila melanogaster head
| PRJNA740168 | ENA
Project description:Insufficient dietary intake of vitamin A causes various human diseases. For instance, chronic vitamin A deprivation causes blindness, slow growth, impaired immunity, and an increased risk of mortality in children. In contrast to these diverse effects of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in mammals, chronic VAD in flies neither causes obvious developmental defects nor lethality. As in mammals, VAD in flies severely affects the visual system: it impairs the synthesis of the retinal chromophore, disrupts the formation of the visual pigments (Rhodopsins), and damages the photoreceptors. However, the molecular mechanisms that respond to VAD remain poorly understood. To identify genes and signaling pathways that are affected by VAD, we performed RNA-sequencing and differential gene expression analysis in Drosophila melanogaster. We found an upregulation of genes that are essential for the synthesis of the retinal chromophore, specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and major nutrient reservoir proteins. We also discovered that VAD affects several genes that are required for the termination of the light response: for instance, we found a downregulation of both arrestin genes that are essential for the inactivation of Rhodopsin. A comparison of the VAD-responsive genes with previously identified blue light stress-responsive genes revealed that the two types of environmental stress trigger largely nonoverlapping transcriptome responses. Yet, both stresses increase the expression of seven genes with poorly understood functions. Taken together, our transcriptome analysis offers insights into the molecular mechanisms that respond to environmental stresses.
| S-EPMC8527478 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin, plays a critical role in calcium homeostasis, the immune system, and normal development. Many epidemiological cohort studies globally have found high prevalence rates of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency, recognized as an important health issue that needs to be solved. In particular, reproductive age and pregnant women low in vitamin D status may confer risks of diseases like obesity on their offspring. While observational studies have suggested associations between prenatal vitamin D deficiency and metabolic phenotypes in offspring, not yet determined is whether prenatal vitamin D deficiency permanently alters the development of the liver, a major metabolic organ. We tested the histopathology and the transcriptomic profiles of livers from male C57BL/6J mice exposed to prenatal vitamin D deficiency through a maternal dietary intervention model. We found that prenatal vitamin D deficiency increases the prevalence of histopathological changes in the liver, and alters its gene expression profile. Cell subtype proportion analysis showed that the liver of prenatal vitamin D deficiency alters non-parenchymal cells of the liver, specifically macrophages, a subset of endothelial cells, and dendritic cells. Our results indicate the long-term memory of prenatal vitamin D deficiency exposure in the adult liver, a potential contributor to offspring health risks.
2022-05-10 | GSE194417 | GEO
Project description:Transcriptomic analysis of lungs from newborn rats born to vitamin D adequate and vitamin D deficient mothers Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy is common and is related to several maternal and fetal morbidities. Past studies suggest that vitamin D plays a role in normal lung development and we have shown that vitamin D regulates lung alveolar and vascular growth and preserves lung structure in experimental bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) through improved pro-angiogeneic signaling. In addition, maternal vitamin D deficiency causes abnormal airway, alveolar, and vascular growth, as well as impaired lung function and airway hyper-reactivity in newborn rats. However, the mechanisms responsible for these physiologic effects are unknown. To gain insight into the role that maternal vitamin D status has on fetal lung development we used an unbiased transcriptomic approach to identify pathways altered in the lungs of offspring from vitamin D deficient dams.
2020-09-01 | GSE136736 | GEO
Project description:Vitamin D deficiency is a common micronutrient deficiency worldwide, especially among reproductive-age women, and vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy increases the risks of offspring’s immune-related diseases later in life. The mechanisms of how our body remembers the exposure status of an adverse environment during development have not been fully elucidated yet. Here we show that prenatal vitamin D deficiency exposure alters the immune cell proportion of the offspring at the prenatal and adult stage, which is attributed to transcriptional alterations of vitamin D receptor downstream genes. Further, we assessed the association between maternal vitamin D status and cord blood immune cell profiles from 75 healthy mother and their term baby pairs and found that maternal vitamin D deficiency significantly alters immune cell proportion in cord blood. Our findings demonstrate that prenatal vitamin D deficiency alters the immune cell compositions of offspring by changing the transcriptional properties of stem cells and altering long-term stem cell fate decisions.
2024-09-30 | GSE242042 | GEO
Project description:Vitamin D deficiency is a common micronutrient deficiency worldwide, especially among reproductive-age women, and vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy increases the risks of offspring’s immune-related diseases later in life. The mechanisms of how our body remembers the exposure status of an adverse environment during development have not been fully elucidated yet. Here we show that prenatal vitamin D deficiency exposure alters the immune cell proportion of the offspring at the prenatal and adult stage, which is attributed to transcriptional alterations of vitamin D receptor downstream genes. Further, we assessed the association between maternal vitamin D status and cord blood immune cell profiles from 75 healthy mother and their term baby pairs and found that maternal vitamin D deficiency significantly alters immune cell proportion in cord blood. Our findings demonstrate that prenatal vitamin D deficiency alters the immune cell compositions of offspring by changing the transcriptional properties of stem cells and altering long-term stem cell fate decisions.
2024-09-30 | GSE242041 | GEO
Project description:This study demonstrates that transplantation of fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells (FL-HSCs) from fetuses subjected to vitamin D (VD) deficiency in utero induced persistent insulin resistance to VD sufficient recipient mice. Transcriptional changes associated with intrauterine vitamin D deficiency where identified through microarray analysis of mouse BMMs from vitamin D deficient and sufficient conditions.
2023-05-18 | GSE158763 | GEO
Project description:The recently described roles of vitamin C as an epigenetic regulator playsa crucial role in normal physiological development and pathological conditions.However, the epigenetic regulatory role of vitamin C in renal homeostasis andpathogenesis remains largely unknown. We aim to reveal that vitamin C deficiency promoted acute tubular necrosis,and provide a potential mechanism for epigenetic therapy in preventing the progression of chronic kidney disease.
2021-12-09 | GSE190371 | GEO
Project description:We report the effects of vitamin E deficiency using the Ttpa-null mouse model on transcriptome profiles of dorsal root ganglia neurons
2020-03-12 | GSE128276 | GEO
Project description:Vitamin D deficiency exacerbates UV/endorphin and opioid addiction
| PRJNA720566 | ENA