Project description:Expression profiling comparing healthy kidneys of wild-type FVB mice and wild-type full congenic FVB-HIVAN1CAST mice HIV-1 transgenic mice on the FVB/NJ background (TgFVB) represent a validated model of HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN). A major susceptibility locus, HIVAN1, was previously mapped to chromosome 3A1-A3 in a cross between TgFVB and CAST/EiJ (CAST) strains, and introgression of a 51.9 Mb segment encompassing HIVAN1 from CAST into TgFVB results in accelerated development of nephropathy. We performed genome-wide expression profiling of whole kidneys from wild-type (without the HIV-1 transgene) full congenic FVB-HIVAN1CAST and FVB mouse strains, with the goal of identifying genes with differential renal expression in the HIVAN1 locus that may be associated with the development of nephropathy upon exposure to HIV-1. We only profiled healthy wild-type kidneys because the profound histopathological lesions of HIV-1 transgenic mice introduce many secondary gene expression changes that can confound interpretation of transcriptomic data.
Project description:We used Affymetrix Mouse Exon 1.0 ST arrays to identify potential changes in alternative splicing between a subcongenic interval of the QTL Sicd2 on Chr 15 and their FVB-like littermates. Results implicate novel candidate genes conferring susceptibility to seizure-induced cell death. Total RNA was extracted from the hippocampus of 8 Sicd2-ISCL4 subcongenic mice and 8 FVB-like littermates.
Project description:The study applied NGS to determine the cardiac transcriptomes of BBLN-transgenic mice with FVB/N background in comparison to those of non-transgenic FVB/N mice at an age of 8 months. The BBLN (Bublin coiled-coil protein) is the chromosome 9 open reading frame, C9orf16, with largely unknown function. To investigate the cardiac phenotype of increased cardiac BBLN transcript levels we generated BBLN-transgenic (Tg-BBLN) mice. Echocardiography documented that Tg-BBLN mice developed features of heart failure at an age of 8 months. To elucidate pathomechanisms of heart failure induced by BBLN, we performed NGS of the cardiac transcriptomes of eight-month-old, male, BBLN-transgenic mice with cardiac-specific expression of BBLN under control of the myocardium-specific, alpha-MHC promoter. The non-transgenic control group are age-matched, male, nontransgenic FVB/N mice. NGS data of this study document transcriptome changes underlying the heart failure phenotype induced by transgenic BBLN expression.
Project description:Epithelial tumor cells (E) underwent EMT in vivo in FVB/N mice generating mesenchymal tumors. Mesenchymal cell lines (M1-M4) were each derived from a different mouse. This study compares gene expression between these two different tumor types. Keywords: cell type comparison
Project description:Amyloid-ß (Aß) plaques are pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer disease. However, the precise neuropathological changes that occur in brain in response to amyloid deposition are largely unknown. To study the molecular mechanism(s) responsible for Aß-mediated neuropathology, we performed a gene expression analysis on frontal neocortical brain tissue of APPPS1 mice compared to their littermate controls.
Project description:In order to examine the changes in gene expression between normal and myotonic dystrophic animals, gene expression array studies were done with extensor digitorum longus (EDL) of transgenic HSALR line 20b mice using Affymetrix MOE430 2.0 microarrays. We used EDL muscle from transgenic HSALR line 20b mice, maintained as homozygotes in an FVB inbred background and wild-type FVB mice purchased from Taconic.
Project description:Transcriptomic comparison of FVB mouse strain lung Cells one week upon injecting mice intraperitoneally with either saline or Urethane. Mouse lung cell were also compared at the transcriptomic level with the mouse lung adenocarcinoma cell line FULA 1, which was established in our lab We injected 6 (3 males, 3 females) FVB mice 8 weeks old, with either saline or urethane. One week later we sacrificed and harvested their lungs. The dissected lungs were assayed to RNA extraction (via trizol) in order to identify their transcriptomic signature. Moreover we compared the gene expression of the mouse lung cells to the mouse lung adenocarcinoma cell line FULA 1.
Project description:FVB mice were engineered to express wild-type human cyclin E under control of the human surfactant C promoter (CEO mice; Ma et al, PNAS 2007). These mice develop spontaneous lung tumors, which were shown to be adenocarcinoma by histological analysis. Here we compare whole-genome RNA expression levels between the tumors and normal lung of 4 CEO mice as well as 4 nontransgenic animals.