Project description:Patients with long-duration diabetes develop cardiovascular complications resulting in highly increased mortality and complications which affect the kidneys, eyes and peripheral nerves associated with high morbidity. Among the diabetic complications, damage in the eye, diabetic retinopathy, is the most common microvascular complication of diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of vision-loss globally. It is characterized by a number of different patho-mechanisms including changes in vascular permeability, capillary degeneration, and finally at a late stage overshooting formation of new blood vessels. This expression analysis focused on the use of different experimental models for Diabetes Mellitus and its complications (for a review see 1: Al-Awar et al: Experimental Diabetes Mellitus in Different Animal Models. J Diabetes Res. 2016; doi: 10.1155/2016/9051426). By that, we wanted to uncover the relative contributions of systemic hyperinsulinaemia and/or hyperglycemia to molecular regulations. The following models have been used: As insulinopenic, hyperglycemic model reflecting Type 1 diabetes, male STZ-Wistar rats (60mg/kg BW; i.p.) were used. Wistar rats without STZ injection served as non-diabetic controls. Male obese ZDF rats (Fa/Fa) were used as type-2 diabetes model characterized by persisting hyperglycemia and transient hyperinsulinemia. Male lean ZDF rats (Fa/-) served as non-diabetic controls. Male obese ZF rats (Fa/Fa) hyperglycemia were used reflecting euglycemia and severe insulin resistance. Male lean ZF rats (Fa/-) served as controls. ZDF and ZF rats were obtained in two genotypes, obese (genotype fa/fa) and lean littermates (genotype Fa/?). All rats were housed in standard cages under a normal light-dark cycle for 16 weeks. All animals had free access to food and water. ZF and Wistar rats received a standard chow (Ssniff R/M) and ZDF rats received Purina 5008 chow. A group size of n=8 were used for all study groups. Wistar rats were rendered type-1 like hyperglycemic and hypoinsulinemic via a single injection of streptocotocin (STZ, 60mg/kg; i.p.) at 7 weeks of age. Obese ZDF rats (fa/fa) develop spontaneously a type-2 diabetes phenotype with persisting hyperglycemia and transient hyperinsulinemia (hyperglycemic, hypoinsulinemic). Obese ZF rats (fa/fa) develop insulin resistance with permanent hyperinsulinemia without concomitant hyperglycemia and no overt diabetes phenotype. Non STZ treated Wistar rats, lean ZDF littermates (Fa/?), and lean ZF littermates (Fa/?) served as controls. All groups were kept for 12 weeks on respective conditions together with appropriate age-matched controls. Unbiased gene expression analysis was performed per group using Affymetrix gene arrays.
Project description:The RNA-seq analysis continues our work profiling the the gastrointestinal tract of the UC Davis Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (UCD-T2DM) Rat. Male UCD-T2DM rats (age ~170 days) were included in this study if either recently diagnosed as diabetic (n=6, RD, nonfasting glucose > 300 mg/dl) or 3-month post-onset of diabetes (n=6, D3M). A set of younger non-diabetic UCD-T2DM rats were also studied as a non-diabetic comparison (n=6, ND, age ~70 days).
Project description:Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) can improve diabetes mellitus dramatically. However, the mechanisms remain largely undetermined. With the advancement of in-depth bioinformatic analysis, non-coding RNAs especially circular RNAs(circRNAs), have been implicated in many biological processes. To explore whether circRNAs mediate the amelioration of diabetes mellitus after SG, we subjected liver samples of diabetic rats after SG and shame operations for RNA sequencing. Through RNA sequencing, we identified a dramatically differentially expressed profile of 107 circRNAs. Some of these specific circRNAs were only expressed in diabetic rats after SG, which may be promising biological markers of SG prognosis.
2023-11-23 | GSE162013 | GEO
Project description:Polysaccharides Modulate Gut Microbiota in Rats