Project description:Gastric ECL cells and parietal (PC) cells in normal conditions and gastric ECL cells after 24 hrs fasting were purified using a combination of counter-flow elutriation, nycodenz gradient and FACS based on acridine orange labeling of histamine containing vesicles (ECL cells) or autofluorescense (PC cells) to homogeneity. cRNA probes from this purified cell suspensions and from mixed gastric homogenates were hybridized to whole rat genome expression oligonucleotide microarrays. We imported each channel separately (normalized intensity of Cy3 labeled samples = gProcessedSignal and of Cy5 labeled samples = rProcessedSignal) from the original Agilent Feature Extraction data files (submitted as raw data) after slide scanning from all slides into a Genespring 7.3 microarray database warehouse. Genespringâs built in statistical module was used to compare all channels to each other. The normalization used was against specific samples (the 5 channels of Gastric mucosal scrapings). Genespring identifies genes differentially expressed in the ECL cell samples and the parietal samples and also calculates the significance of difference (p-value). Experiment Overall Design: ECL cells: free access to food and water (250 gm Sprague Dawley Rat) Experiment Overall Design: PC cells: free access to food and water (250 gm Sprague Dawley Rat) Experiment Overall Design: ECL cells: 24 hrs fasting, free access to water (250 gm Sprague Dawley Rat) Experiment Overall Design: Gastric mucosa scrapes: free access to food and water (250 gm Sprague Dawley Rat) Experiment Overall Design: Fasting gastric mucosa scrapes: 24 hrs fasting, free access to water (250 gm Sprague Dawley Rat) Experiment Overall Design: Three independent cell purifications, total RNA isolations and at least one dye swap per sample set (3).
Project description:In order to establish a rat embryonic stem cell transcriptome, mRNA from rESC cell line DAc8, the first male germline competent rat ESC line to be described and the first to be used to generate a knockout rat model was characterized using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis.
Project description:Gastric ECL cells and parietal (PC) cells in normal conditions and gastric ECL cells after 24 hrs fasting were purified using a combination of counter-flow elutriation, nycodenz gradient and FACS based on acridine orange labeling of histamine containing vesicles (ECL cells) or autofluorescense (PC cells) to homogeneity. cRNA probes from this purified cell suspensions and from mixed gastric homogenates were hybridized to whole rat genome expression oligonucleotide microarrays. We imported each channel separately (normalized intensity of Cy3 labeled samples = gProcessedSignal and of Cy5 labeled samples = rProcessedSignal) from the original Agilent Feature Extraction data files (submitted as raw data) after slide scanning from all slides into a Genespring 7.3 microarray database warehouse. Genespring’s built in statistical module was used to compare all channels to each other. The normalization used was against specific samples (the 5 channels of Gastric mucosal scrapings). Genespring identifies genes differentially expressed in the ECL cell samples and the parietal samples and also calculates the significance of difference (p-value). Keywords: rat whole genome expression microarray analysis (transcriptome)
Project description:A series of two color gene expression profiles obtained using Agilent 44K expression microarrays was used to examine sex-dependent and growth hormone-dependent differences in gene expression in rat liver. This series is comprised of pools of RNA prepared from untreated male and female rat liver, hypophysectomized (‘Hypox’) male and female rat liver, and from livers of Hypox male rats treated with either a single injection of growth hormone and then killed 30, 60, or 90 min later, or from livers of Hypox male rats treated with two growth hormone injections spaced 3 or 4 hr apart and killed 30 min after the second injection. The pools were paired to generate the following 6 direct microarray comparisons: 1) untreated male liver vs. untreated female liver; 2) Hypox male liver vs. untreated male liver; 3) Hypox female liver vs. untreated female liver; 4) Hypox male liver vs. Hypox female liver; 5) Hypox male liver + 1 growth hormone injection vs. Hypox male liver; and 6) Hypox male liver + 2 growth hormone injections vs. Hypox male liver. A comparison of untreated male liver and untreated female liver liver gene expression profiles showed that of the genes that showed significant expression differences in at least one of the 6 data sets, 25% were sex-specific. Moreover, sex specificity was lost for 88% of the male-specific genes and 94% of the female-specific genes following hypophysectomy. 25-31% of the sex-specific genes whose expression is altered by hypophysectomy responded to short-term growth hormone treatment in hypox male liver. 18-19% of the sex-specific genes whose expression decreased following hypophysectomy were up-regulated after either one or two growth hormone injections. Finally, growth hormone suppressed 24-36% of the sex-specific genes whose expression was up-regulated following hypophysectomy, indicating that growth hormone acts via both positive and negative regulatory mechanisms to establish and maintain the sex specificity of liver gene expression. For full details, see V. Wauthier and D.J. Waxman, Molecular Endocrinology (2008)
Project description:Analysis of LBNF1 rat testes from controls, containing both somatic and all germ cell types and from irradiated rats in which all cells germ cells except type A spermatgogonia are eliminated. Results provide insight into distinguishing germ and somatic cell genes and identification of somatic cell genes that are upregulated after irradiation.
Project description:Aging causes a functional decline in tissues throughout the body that may be delayed by caloric restriction (CR). However, the cellular profiles and signatures of aging, as well as those ameliorated by CR, remain unclear. Here, we built comprehensive single-cell and single-nucleus transcriptomic atlases across various rat tissues undergoing aging and CR. CR attenuated aging-related changes in cell type composition, gene expression, and core transcriptional regulatory networks. Immune cells were increased during aging, and CR favorably reversed the aging-disturbed immune ecosystem. Computational prediction revealed that the abnormal cell-cell communication patterns observed during aging, including the excessive proinflammatory ligand-receptor interplay, were reversed by CR. Our work provides multi-tissue single-cell transcriptional landscapes associated with aging and CR in a mammal, enhances our understanding of the robustness of CR as a geroprotective intervention, and uncovers how metabolic intervention can act upon the immune system to modify the process of aging.