Project description:We analyzed transcriptomic characteristic of motor cortex from Sprague-Dawley rats brain with cerebral ischemia and reperfusion (CIR).
Project description:Renal ischemia reperfusion injury (I/R) has great clinical relevance and many treatments and hospitalizations are associated with this pathological process. Animal models are widely used in the development of kidney I/R studies and numerous papers have been published in this field in recent years suggesting that the nature of the animal species used in these models can lead to a different response to ischemic insult. The Brown Norway (BN) rat strain is known to show endogenous resistance to the ischemic process and several studies have sought to identify the cell mechanism present in this resistance. Despite of all the previously reported works, little is know about the genetic response of BN in front of ischemic insult. By means of a microarray comparative genetic study between BN and the ischemia susceptible rat strain Sprague Dawley (SD), the present work determine the genetic response to the I/R process in both rat strains and the genes that are differentially expressed during the I/R process and link them with some of the main cytoprotective processes responsible for the endogenous resistance to renal ischemic injury in BN rats. The following experimental groups for BN and SD rats (n=3 per group) were studied: Group 1: Control (C): Animals subjected to identical maneuvers as the I/R group except that the renal pedicles were not clamped. Group 2: Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R): Animals were subjected to 45 min of bilateral ischemia and 24 h of reperfusion. Gene expression profiles were obtained from control and I/R groups in the two rat strains in three biological replicates, resulting in 12 hybridizations from 2 groups × 2 strains × 3biological replicates. To evaluate the technical reliability of microarrays, replicate microarrays were performed on several RNA samples. In total, 12 hybridizations were performed for this study.
Project description:We analyzed transcriptomic characteristic of motor cortex from Sprague-Dawley rats brain with cerebral ischemia and reperfusion (CIR) treated by acupuncture.
Project description:We have previously shown that Brown Norway (BN) rats are progesterone resistant. Thus this experiment was designed to compare the transcriptomes in uterus that are altered by progesterone challenge between this strain of rat with Holtzman Sprague Dawley (HSD) rats
Project description:Renal ischemia reperfusion injury (I/R) has great clinical relevance and many treatments and hospitalizations are associated with this pathological process. Animal models are widely used in the development of kidney I/R studies and numerous papers have been published in this field in recent years suggesting that the nature of the animal species used in these models can lead to a different response to ischemic insult. The Brown Norway (BN) rat strain is known to show endogenous resistance to the ischemic process and several studies have sought to identify the cell mechanism present in this resistance. Despite of all the previously reported works, little is know about the genetic response of BN in front of ischemic insult. By means of a microarray comparative genetic study between BN and the ischemia susceptible rat strain Sprague Dawley (SD), the present work determine the genetic response to the I/R process in both rat strains and the genes that are differentially expressed during the I/R process and link them with some of the main cytoprotective processes responsible for the endogenous resistance to renal ischemic injury in BN rats. Keywords: comparative genomics hybridization
Project description:We used adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (280-329 g body weight). Controls were naïve rats. Ischemic rats were subjected to 1-hour occlusion of the right middle cerebral artery and 16h reperfusion. The goal was to identify the changes in the gene expression profile of PV after brain ischemia.
Project description:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used to establish exhausted-exercise model by motorized rodent treadmill. Yu-Ping-Feng-San at doses of 2.18 g/kg was administrated by gavage before exercise training for 10 consecutive days. Quantitative proteomics was performed for assessing the related mechanism of Yu-Ping-Feng-San.
Project description:We reported the kidney transcriptome and methylome profiles of rat Brown Norway (BN) and Sprague Dawley (CD) strains at late pregnancy (day 18/21) compared to non-pregnancy. The renal transcriptome was characterized from 326 million single-end 100bp RNA-seq data. The methylome dataset included 234 million 75-bp RRBS DNA methylation reads. We identified 297 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) induced by pregnancy in CD rats and 174 DEGs induced in BN rats, based on the RNA-seq dataset. 237 of the 297 DEGs in CD pregnant rats and 114 of the 174 DEGs in BN pregnant rats are strain specific, indicating differential adaptation to pregnancy. Methylome data reveals that strain differences is the major factor in determining methylation differences. We also found that pregant BN showed higher methylation than non-pregnant BN at transcription starter site (TSS) and promoter regions. Functional analysis based on DEGs and DMGs revealed that pregnant BN rats showed renal transcriptomic changes that induce vitamin D deficiency and renal pro-inflammatory gene expression that can partly explain pregnancy-specific proteinuria. Integrated analysis based on transcriptome and methylome suggested that modifications on DNA methylation were correlated with transcriptome changes for several significant biological processes and/or pathways.