Corticosterone regulation of mRNAs and and corresponding RU486 antagonism in astrocytes in vitro
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE39270 | GEO | 2013/01/09
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA170446
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Analysis of mRNA gene expression changes mediated by natural glucocorticoid ligand corticosterone in mouse cortical primary astrocyte cultures; also, parallel analysis of RU486 (mifepristone) antagonism of corticosterone-mediated mRNA changes. Total RNA obtained from astrocyte cultures subjected to 2, 4, or 6 hours of (1) 100nM corticosterone alone, (2) 500nM RU486 alone, or (3) 100nM corticosterone + 500nM RU486 exposure compared to vehicle control astrocyte cultures.
2013-01-09 | E-GEOD-39270 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The study was designed in order to identify genes differentially expressed when glucocorticoid signaling is blocked by a glucocorticoid-receptor antagonist (RU486 – mifepristone) in the context of brain inflammation induced by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). LPS is only able to cause murine brain damage in our experimental conditions upon RU486 pre-treatment. Hence, the study may reveal potential candidate genes to mediate neuroprotection or neurotoxicity. Due to the factorial design of the experiment, RU486 main-effect could be dissociated from the effects resultant of RU486/inflammation interaction. In addition, brain dissection was conducted to verify the effects in the brain side ipsilateral or contralateral to the site of intracerebral LPS infusion. Keywords: Brain, CNS, LPS, Glucocorticoid, RU486, Mifrespitone, Innate immune response, Inflammation, Affymetrix, Gene profile, Neuroprotection, Neurodegeneration, Factorial design.
2007-03-22 | GSE6509 | GEO
Project description:It is well-known that indomethacin (the cyclooxygenase 1 & 2 inhibitor) and RU486 (or mifepristone, the progesterone receptor antagonist) block follicular rupture in rats. To characterize genetic alterations in unruptured follicles, gene expression profiles in ovarian follicle were analyzed in indomethacin- and RU486-treated female Sprague-Dawley rats. Ovaries are collected at 22:00 on the proestrus day and 10:00 on the following estrus day after a single dose of indomethacin and RU486. Histopathologically, changes depicting responses to LH surge were observed in ovaries, uteri and vagina. Total RNA was extracted from pre-ovulatory follicles or unruptured follicles collected by laser microdissection and analyzed by GeneChip. Among genes showing statistically significant changes compared to control groups, following changes were considered relevant to induction of unruptured follicles. In indomethacin-treated rats, Wnt4 was down-regulated, suggesting effect on tissue integrity and steroid genesis. In RU486-treated rats, Adamts1, Adamts9, Edn2, Ednra, Lyve1, Plat, and Pparg were down-regulated. These changes suggest effects on proteolysis for extracellular matrix or surrounding tissue (Adamts1 & 9, and Plat), constriction of smooth muscle surrounding follicles (Edn2, Ednra, and Pparg), follicular fluid (Lyve1), and angiogenesis (Pparg). Down-regulation of angiogenesis related genes (Angpt2, Hmox1, and Vegfa) was observed in both treatment groups. Here, we clarify genetic alterations induced by the inhibition of cyclooxygenase or progesterone receptor.
2014-02-01 | GSE54584 | GEO
Project description:Indomethacin (an inhibitor of prostaglandin synthesis) and RU486 (mifepristone, progesterone receptor antagonist) are well known compounds which impair follicle rupture in rats, nevertheless the histopahotlogical figures of these follicle were different in detail due to the difference of the pathway which each compound inhibits. To characterize these unruptured follicles further and to investigate the genes which were altered in each rat treated with indomethacin or mifepristone, gene expression profile in ovarian follicle were analyzed in female sprague-Dawley rats. Peri- or post ovulatory follicles were collected by laser microdissection and extracted RNA was analyzed by genechip after single dosage of mifepristone or indomethacin. Animals were singly administered orally Indomethacin (IM) at 4mg/kg at 16:00 or RU486 (RU) at 100 mg/kg at 10:00 on the proestrus day, and sacrificed by exsanguination under anesthesia at 22:00 on the proestrus day (PeF: peri-ovulatory follicle), and 10:00 on the estrus day (PoF: post-ovulatory follicle). Ovaries were also collected from untreated rats at 22:00 on the proestrus day, and 10:00 on the estrus day as control groups. Three animals were contained per each treatment group at each timing. The ovaries were removed and embedded in OCT (Tissue-Tek, Sakura Finetek, Torrance, CA), frozen in dry-ice-cold isopentan, and stored at -70 C until used. Frozen sections (8 micro meter thick) were mounted on the membrane slides (MMI, Glatteburg, Zurich, Switzerland), and stained with HistogeneTM LCM frozen section staining kit (Arcturus Engineering, Mountain View, CA). Then, 15 follicles in each phase were retrieved by Laser Micro Dissection system (LMD, CellCut Plus, MMI). The collected follicle sections were lysed by the buffer RLT in the collection tube supplied in RNeasy Micro Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany), and total RNA was extracted according to manufacturer's instructions.
2014-02-01 | E-GEOD-54584 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Corticosterone regulation of mRNAs and and corresponding RU486 antagonism in astrocytes in vitro
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Project description:The myometrium is an important reproductive tissue composed primarily of smooth muscle cells. Contractility of the myometrial smooth muscle cells during pregnancy and labour is modulated by hormones. Despite much research, little is known about the molecular mechanism by which estrogen and progesterone regulate myometrial contractility. This study investigates global gene expression profile of cultured human uterine smooth muscle cells (hUtSMCs) following 17β-estradiol (E2) and/or progesterone treatments using cDNA microarray technology. Furthermore the effects of addition of the progesterone inhibitor RU486 were investigated. Many genes were regulated in the presence of P4 or E2 alone but almost six times these numbers were regulated in the presence of the combination. The majority of these genes returned to near baseline levels (control samples) on addition of RU486. In total 796 annotated genes were significantly differentially expressed in the combined presence of P4 and E2 (relative to untreated levels). Furthermore, 666 annotated genes were significantly regulated by the addition of RU486 to the P4/E2 combination (relative to P4/E2 levels). Gene ontology analysis of these differentially expressed genes revealed a strong association of P4/E2 treatment with the downregulated expression of genes involved in cell communication, signal transduction, channel activity, inflammatory response and differentiation. Upregulated processes included cell survival (anti-apoptosis), gene transcription, steroid hormone biosynthesis, muscle development, insulin receptor signaling and cell growth. Functional withdrawal of progesterone using RU486 effectively reversed the processes induced by P4/E2 treatment. The hUtSMC system is an additional useful model to investigate steroid effects on smooth muscle cells in isolation from other myometrial cell types. In this study human myometrial smooth muscle cells (hUtSMCs) purchased from Lonza were cultured and treated with 17beta estradiol and progesterone either alone or in combination. In addition the 17beta estradiol and progesterone combined treated samples were also treated with the progesterone inhibitor RU486 (mifepristone). RNA was isolated after 72h from both treated and untreated control cells. The experiment was repeated 3 times. Please note that slides were scanned three times successively (i.e. 3 .gpr files per sample) and the median raw values were used as input raw data for GeneSpring analysis (Median_Table_InputRAW.xlsx).
2015-11-02 | E-GEOD-59231 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2019-06-10 | GSE129815 | GEO
Project description:We explored sex-biased effects of the primary stress glucocorticoid hormone corticosterone on the miRNA expression profile in the rat hippocampus. Adult adrenalectomized (ADX) female and male rats received a single corticosterone (10 mg/kg) or vehicle injection and after 6 h, hippocampi were collected for miRNA, mRNA and Western blot analyses. miRNA profiling microarrays showed a basal sex-biased miRNA profile in ADX rat hippocampi. Additionally, acute corticosterone administration triggered a sex-biased differential expression of miRNAs derived from genes located in several chromosomes and clusters on the X and 6 chromosomes. Putative promoter analysis unveiled that most corticosterone-responsive miRNA genes contained motifs for either direct or indirect glucocorticoid actions in both sexes. The evaluation of transcription factors indicated that almost 50 % of miRNA genes sensitive to corticosterone in both sexes was under glucocorticoid receptor regulation. Transcription factor-miRNA regulatory network analyses identified several transcription factors that regulate, activate or repress miRNA expression. Validated target mRNA analysis of corticosterone-responsive miRNAs showed a more complex miRNA-mRNA interaction network in males compared to females. Enrichment analysis revealed that several hippocampal-relevant pathways were affected in both sexes, such as neurogenesis and neurotrophin signaling. The evaluation of selected miRNA targets from these pathways displayed a strong sex difference in the hippocampus of ADX-vehicle rats. Corticosterone treatment did not change the levels of the miRNA targets and their corresponding tested proteins. Our data indicate that corticosterone exerts a sex-biased effect on hippocampal miRNA expression, which may engage in sculpting the basal sex differences observed at higher levels of hippocampal functioning.
2021-08-01 | GSE181268 | GEO
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2021-02-13 | GSE135705 | GEO