Project description:To gain new insights into molecular changes in skeletal muscle aging and disease with a special focus on differential alternative splicing and senescence, we performed RNA-seq on rat gastrocnemius muscles of animals aged 6, 12, 18, 21, 24 and 27 months, using a rat sarcopenia model we had previously established.
Project description:To gain new insights into molecular changes in skeletal muscle aging and disease with a special focus on differential alternative splicing and senescence, we performed RNA-seq on tibialis muscles from 15 months old (adult, a) and 27 months old (old, o) rats. Whole (w) muscle samples were prepared for both age groups (w/a and w/o). Additionally, for both age groups, muscle fibers were isolated. For adult rats, this resulted in one group (f/a). For old rats, fibers were subjected to Laser capture microdissection guided by expression of aging markers Tmem158 and Cdkn1a, giving rise to two groups, aging marker-positive fibers (f/o+) and aging marker-negative fibers (f/o-). The entire experiment comprises 5 groups (w/a, w/o, f/a, f/o+, f/o-), with 5 animals per group, ie. 25 samples total.
Project description:In this study we compared Gastrocnemius and Triceps gene expression with age. Our results show that gene expression is massively modulated with age in Gastroc but on the contrary very stable in Triceps, suggesting that Triceps is resistant to age-related defects.
Project description:Transcriptomic profiles of gastrocnemius muscles from 18 weeks old, male, hind muscles unloaded mice treated with vehicle or4-phenylbutyrate (4-PBA)
Project description:Sarcopenia is the decreased muscle mass and weakness associated with aging and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. To what extent non-locomotive muscles are susceptible to this condition is unclear. For example, age affects laryngeal function (ventilation, airway protective reflexes, swallowing and phonation). Age-related laryngeal dysfunction may be due to effects on its intrinsic muscles that have a unique phenotype: very small, mostly fast oxidative muscle fibers. For this study, we examined how age alters the functional characteristics and gene expression profile of posterior cricoarytenoid (PCA), an intrinsic laryngeal muscle. PCA muscles from Fischer 344-Brown Norway F1 hybrid rats (6 and 30 months of age) were used for cDNA microarrays, light and electron (EM) microscopy, and in vitro contractile function. Histological analyses demonstrated a ~40% increase in mean PCA fiber size and in the number of fibers with low myosin ATPase activity. There was also evidence of ragged-red fibers, a hallmark of mitochondrial dysfunction. In turn, mitochondrial volume density, determined by EM, was significantly higher in PCA muscles at 30 months (43% vs. 21% at 6 months). In vitro function showed a decrease in velocity of unloaded shortening at 30 months. Finally, cDNA microarrays demonstrated a transcriptome shift in PCA muscle with age. Gene classes with the largest changes were: signal transduction, transcription factors, and metabolic enzymes. These data demonstrate that PCA muscles are significantly altered by age. Moreover, the observed changes in muscle fiber size, mitochondrial content and gene expression profile suggest that the PCA response to age diverges from that seen in more typical skeletal muscles. Experiment Overall Design: Total RNA was obtained with TRIzol (Invitrogen Carlsbad, CA) following the manufacturers recommended protocol. Tissues from 4 animals were combined into each RNA sample to decrease inter-subject variability. Biotinylated cRNA samples were hybridized to Affymetrix Rat Genome U34 gene chips (n=9 chips) described previously [McMullen et al. 2004]. Microarrays were washed and stained with a streptavidin-bound marker and scanned. Data were analyzed with Affymetrix Microarray Suite 5.0 software. Only genes with consistent absent/present calls in all three independent replicates per group were considered for further analysis. Comparisons used the 6-mo transcriptome as the baseline and the one-sided Wilcoxonâs signed rank test to estimate âincrease/no change/ decreaseâ difference calls for each pair-wise comparison. Only difference calls consistent in all pair-wise comparisons and with average changes > 1.70 were considered significant, resulting in a conservative list of genes with changed expression levels. Functional classification of genes was based on an extensive literature review.
Project description:The samples consist of cells from two muscle types in mice – rotator cuff and gastrocnemius muscles. The aim of the project is to study the methylation differences between the two muscle types, specifically in genes involved in adipogenesis and muscle regeneration in the rotator cuff muscle with the gastrocnemius muscle being the control.
Project description:Skeletal muscle is composed of multinucleated myofibers, in which nuclei share the cytoplasm, and other cell types. Here, we performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-Seq) to determine the gene expressions in each nucleus in gastrocnemius and plantaris muscles collected from 12-week-old C57BL/6 wild-type mice. Our datasets also provided a basis for comparing gene expressions between myofibers and other cell types and discovering the novel cell populations in muscle tissues.
Project description:Genome-wide H3S10ph marks from mouse gastrocnemius muscles after 50 eccentric contractions compared to contralateral unstimulated gastrocnemius muscles from the same mice.