Project description:We set up liver-derived organoids to study the ageing progenitor population. We detected epigenetic and transcriptional memory in organoids derived from old mice accompanied by alterations in drug and fatty acid metabolism pathways, similar to phenotypes observed in the liver itself.
Project description:We want to investigate how cells in the specific zones in murine liver are affected by age-related changes of the microenvironment. To this end, we generated high-quality scRNA-seq dataset of hepatocytes using Smart-seq3express from 2 young (3-5 months) and 2 old (18-20 months) male mice. Livers were perfused and viable hepatocytes were FACS-sorted based on size. In addition, we recorded ploidy levels of hepatocytes. We retained 545 hepatocytes in total after initial filtering.
Project description:We set up liver-derived organoids to study the ageing progenitor population. We detected epigenetic and transcriptional memory in organoids derived from old mice accompanied by alterations in drug and fatty acid metabolism pathways, similar to phenotypes observed in the liver itself.
Project description:Aging is known to alter the host repsonse to influenza infection. Here, we use bulk RNA sequencing (bulk RNA-seq) to identify cellular changes in the livers of young (16-week-old) and aged (80-week-old) mice following influenza infection.
Project description:Purpose: We used RNA-seq to compare daily rhythms of gene expression in livers of young and old mice. Methods: Livers of young and old mice were processed for RNA-seq at 4-h interval across 2 days. Gene expression level was analyzed by hisat2 and StringTie. Results: We obtained ~10 million high quality sequencing reads per time point per sample after quality control and alignment. Gene expression levels of ~19,000 transcripts were obtained for both age groups. We found genome-wide differenes in gene expression level as well as rhythms in gene expression. Conclusions: Our study revealed genomwide differences in the level and rhythm of liver gene expression between young and old mice.