Paternal exposure alone induces alcohol-related birth defects in a mouse model: Implications of paternal drinking in FAS birth defects.
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PROVIDER: GSE218362 | GEO | 2024/06/30
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Paternal exposure alone induces alcohol-related birth defects in a mouse model: Implications of paternal drinking in FAS birth defects.
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2024-03-19 | GSE239355 | GEO
Project description:EXPERIMENT: Microarray expression profiles derived from the cranial neural folds (headfold) of neurulation-stage mouse embryos 3.0h after maternal alcohol exposure on 8 d.p.c. ANIMAL MODEL: Pregnancies from 2 substrains of C57BL/6 mice that differ in relative risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS): C57BL/6J (B6J) high-risk condition, and C57BL/6NCrl (B6N) low-risk condition. EXPOSURE: Dams dosed with ethanol (EtOH) by intraperitoneal injection at 2.9 g EtOH per kg body weight. Controls received vehicle (saline) alone. A third group of dams received EtOH + 4.0 mg/kg PK11195, a specific high-affinity ligand to the 18 KDa mitochondrial peripheral benzodiazepine receptor site. INTERVAL: High blood alcohol content must be sustained in dams for several hours to invoke FAS and is traditionally accomplished by a double injection of EtOH 4.0h apart. Since these embryos were harvested for genetic analysis 1h before dams would have gotten the second alcohol injection, the interval represents a snapshot of the critical response, prior to the second maternal injection that invokes greater risk. Counter-exposure to PK11195 significantly lowers the adverse response of B6J embryos to EtOH. PLATFORM: Two independent assays run. The first dataset (PE), run April 2002 â January 2003, used samples pooled from 2 litters (PE) and the platform was a two-channel MPS621 array (http://www.lifesciences.perkinelmer.com/). This platform has 4800 sequence-verified gene elements derived from over 50 different human cDNA libraries reflecting a variety of well-annotated cellular processes and disease pathways. The second dataset (AF), run between May 2005 â November 2005, used samples pooled from 1 litter and the platform was Affymetrix GeneChip® Mouse Genome 430A 2.0 Array (http://www.affymetrix.com/). The MG430A 2.0 platform has 45,102 oligonucleotide probe cells representing approximately 14,000 well-characterized genes in the draft mouse genome assembly. The corresponding GEO samples are GSM12218 - GSM12227 for the two-channel PE arrays, and GSM136067 - GSM136078 for the one-channel AF arrays. Keywords = fetal alcohol syndrome Keywords = alcohol-related birth defects Keywords = EtOH Keywords = PK11195 Keywords = embryo Keywords = strain differences Keywords: Ordered Assay of early mouse embryos during pathogenesis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Replicate RNA samples were arrayed by one-channel oligonucleotide (Affymetrix) or two-channel cDNA (Perkin-Elmer) platforms.
2010-06-09 | E-GEOD-1074 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2004-03-11 | GSE1074 | GEO
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2023-01-23 | GSE222974 | GEO
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| phs000094 | dbGaP
Project description:Exposure to environmental teratogenic pollutant leads to severe birth defects. However, the biological events underlying these developmental abnormalities remain undefined. Here we report a molecular link between an environmental stress response pathway and key developmental genes during craniofacial development. In our study, we focused on the development of the facial prominences at E11.5. To do so, we compared the transcriptomes of mutant embryos (*Pax3Pax3-ERD/GFP *called DM in the microarray samples) to the one of control embryos (*Pax3GFP/+ *called GFP in the sample names). These are knock-in genetic models described in Bajard et al., 2006 and Relaix et al., 2005. In both of them a cassette coding for the GFP is replacing one allele of the Pax3 gene. The Pax3-ERD allele is a conditional one that drives the expression of the dominant negative form of Pax3 (Pax3-ERD) composed of the Pax3 DNA binding domain fused to the engrailed repressor domain (ERD) upon activation of a Cre recombinase. In this study, the Cre was driven by the zygote specific PGK enhancer. Strikingly, mutant mice with impaired Pax3/7 function display severe craniofacial defects. We show these are associated with an up-regulation of the signaling pathway mediated by the Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR), the receptor to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), revealing a genetic interaction between Pax3 and AhR signaling. Activation of AhR signaling in Pax3-deficient embryos drives facial mesenchymal cells out of the cell cycle through the up-regulation of p21 expression. Accordingly, inhibiting AhR activity rescues the cycling status of these cells and the facial closure of Pax3/7 mutants. Together, our findings demonstrate that the regulation of AhR signaling by Pax3/7 is required to protect against TCDD/AhR-mediated teratogenesis during craniofacial development.
2015-04-06 | E-MTAB-3238 | biostudies-arrayexpress