Kainic acid-administered Rat brain: control vs Ketogenic diet-fed
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ABSTRACT: The ketogenic diet has long been used to treat epilepsy, but its mechanism is not yet clearly understood. To explore the potential mechanism, the changes in gene expression induced by the ketogenic diet in the rat kainic acid (KA) epilepsy model were analyzed.
Project description:The ketogenic diet has long been used to treat epilepsy, but its mechanism is not yet clearly understood. To explore the potential mechanism, the changes in gene expression induced by the ketogenic diet in the rat kainic acid (KA) epilepsy model were analyzed. Two-condition experiment, Normal diet-fed rat brain vs. Ketogenic diet-fed rat brain. Duplicate per array
Project description:The aim of this work was to identify mRNA expression changes in the ipsilateral hippocampus in the intraamygdala kainic acid (KA) mouse model of status epilepticus. In this model, status epilepticus (prolonged damaging seizures) are triggered by an intraamygdala KA injection. All mice develop epilepsy after a short latency period of 3-5 days. For our experiments, 10-week old mice with a C57BL/6 background were either injected with intraamygdala KA (n = 18) or vehicle (PBS, n = 18). Mice were sacrificed 8 hours following status epilepticus (acute pathology) or 14 days post-status epilepticus (timepoint at which all mice suffer from chronic epilepsy) and ipsilateral hippocampi were quickly dissected and pooled into 3 groups (n = 3 per pooled sample).
Project description:Specific pathogen free wild-type C57Bl/6 male mice fed ketogenic diet (Bio-Serv AIN-76-A) for 4 weeks Keywords: RNA Expression Array Hearts from 12 week-old mice that were maintained on a standard polysacchardide-rich chow until the age of 8 weeks, at which time they were switched to a ketogenic diet (ad libitum) and maintained for 4 additional weeks prior to collection of tissues
Project description:To investigate the translatome in the ketogenic diet fed condition and the role of phosphoralated eIF4E in it We performed polysome sequencing on chow fed and 24h ketogenic diet fed wild type mice and chow fed eIF4E S209A/S209A mice
Project description:Low carbohydrate ketogenic diet (LCKD) has been used for treatment obesity and epilepsy, however, the molecular mechanism of effect of a LCKD (F3666) on tissues has not been fully investigated. In this study, novel molecular targets of LCKD were explored by gene expression profiling in the liver and cerebral cortex of an LCKD-fed mouse model.
Project description:NAP - neuroprotective peptide demonstrates increase in neuronal survival when injected into the hippocampus of rats in the model of epilepsy Microarray analysis was used to understand the expression of genes following KA treatment and the changes in gene expression following KA+NAP treatment Keywords: stress response
Project description:Metaproteomics is a valuable approach to characterize the biological functions involved in the gut microbiota (GM) response to dietary interventions. Ketogenic diets (KDs) are very effective in controlling seizure severity and frequency in drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and in the weight loss management in obese/overweight individuals. This case study provides proof of concept for the suitability of metaproteomics to monitor changes in taxonomic and functional GM features in an individual on a short-term very low-calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD, 4 weeks), followed by a low-calorie diet (LCD). A marked increase in Akkermansia and Pseudomonadota was observed during VLCKD and reversed after the partial reintroduction of carbohydrates (LCD), in agreement with the results of previous metagenomic studies. In functional terms, the relative increase in Akkermansia was associated with an increased production of proteins involved in response to stress and biosynthesis of gamma-aminobutyric acid. In addition, VLCKD caused a relative increase in enzymes involved in the synthesis of the beta-ketoacid acetoacetate and of the ketogenic amino acid leucine. Our data support the potential of fecal metaproteomics to investigate the GM-dependent effect of KD as a therapeutic option in obese/overweight individuals and DRE patients.
Project description:Analysis of liver gene transcription during feeding of a ketogenic diet. Ketogenic diets may alter physiologic and metabolic profiles in a direction that favors weight loss. C57BL/6J mice were maintained for six weeks on either chow or ketogenic diet. Mice eating KD had lower weights, 90% reduction in insulin levels and increased energy expenditure compared to animals fed chow. Despite consumption of a very high fat diet serum lipids remained normal. Here we show that consumption of KD shifted liver metabolism to drastically increased fatty acid oxidation. Concurrently, expression of genes involved in fatty acid synthesis were markedly suppressed. Reference: A high fat, ketogenic diet induces a unique metabolic state in mice. Kennedy AR, Pissios P, Out H, Xue B, Asakura K, Furukawa N, Marino FE, Liu FF, Kahn BB, Liberman TA, Maratos-Flier E. in press, 2007, Am J Physiol Metab 292. Experiment Overall Design: Eight week old C57BL/6 mice were fed either chow (Labdiet 5008, Pharmserv) or KD (F3666, Bio-Serv) for six weeks. Livers were harvested in the morning in ad lib fed animals. Total RNA from 2-3 animals in each group was used for Affymetrix analysis.
Project description:NAP - neuroprotective peptide demonstrates increase in neuronal survival when injected into the hippocampus of rats in the model of epilepsy Microarray analysis was used to understand the expression of genes following KA treatment and the changes in gene expression following KA+NAP treatment Keywords: stress response KA was injected into the hippocampus of Sprague-Dawley rats. The other group of rats was injected with KA and NAP(10-13M). The third group was injected with NAP only and the last group was injected with PBS as a vehicle. CA3 area of hippocampus was removed 24h later and RNA extraction was done. The samples were subjected to microarray analysis.