Project description:Cranial irradiation (IR), an effective tool to treat malignant brain tumors, triggers a chronic pro-inflammatory microglial response, at least in the adult brain. Using bulk RNA sequencing, we show that the microglial response in the juvenile mouse hippocampus is rapid, but returns toward normal within 1 week. The sensome of irradiated hippocampal microglia reveals an immediate response that declines after one day. Irradiation of the juvenile brain induces a highly ordered temporal progression of the inflammatory and phenotypic microglial genes
Project description:We employed DNA microarray to identify genes differentially regulated by salidroside in ischemic brain of MCAO rats. With a cut of p < .01 and 2-fold change, we found that 121 genes were upregulated and 142 genes were down-regulated in the MCAO group, compared to the sham group. Administration of salidroside (1 h after reperfusion, daily for 6 d) enhanced 28 transcripts and suppressed 16 transcripts. The genes involved in neuroplasticity and oxygen carrier were further confirmed by qRT-PCR. Our data suggest that salidroside could regulate neuroplasticity in post-ischemic stroke, in addition to its neuroportective function. MCAO rats were injected intraperitoneally with salidroside (50 mg/kg body weight) or vehicle (saline) once a day for 6 d, commencing 1 h after reperfusion (n=3 /group). Ischemic brain was dissected for RNA extraction. Differential gene expression regulated by salidroside were analysed by microarray and subsequently confirmed by qRT-PCR.
Project description:CD73ko and control mice were subjected to transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAO) for 50min or subjected to equally long sham surgery. Whole brain RNA was isolated and analyzed with the NanoString nCounter® mouse glial profiling panel.
Project description:Will be added/updated once the manuscript is finalized. Cardiocondyla obscurior queens. Three treatments: virgin queens, queens mated by real males, queens sham-mated (by sterile males). Queens collected 1 week and 8 week after mating. seven loops for queens collected 1 week after mating; nine loops for queens collected 8 weeks after mating. Five direct comparisons (with dye-swaps... so 10 arrays) were done of between 1 week and 8 week samples of queens mated by real males. Each sample is RNA from two queens (from different colonies). Samples were hybridized against Solenopsis invicta microarrays (signal was detectable for most clones!)
Project description:We report the miRNA-Seq and Nanostring mRNA data from regional brain samples after neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (induced by unilateral carotid artery ligation and 30 minutes at 8% oxygen in CD1 mice at postnatal day 9). Analyses are perfomed in the cerebellum, striatum/thalamus, and whole cortex. Examination of regional small RNA expression between four postnatal day 9 mouse pups after hypoxic-ischemic brain injury versus four sham surgery controls
Project description:The in vivo effects of nasal exposure to polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers on their effects on gene expression in the mouse brain. A single dose of PAMAM dendrimers or saline (control) was intranasally administered to 8-week old male BALB/c mice.