Project description:Maternal obesity is increasingly common and negatively impact offspring health. Children born to mothers with obesity are at higher risk of developing diseases associated with abnormalities within the hematopoietic system such as atypical immune profiles, hematopoiesis, and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Interestingly, disease risks are often dependent on the offspring’s sex, suggesting sex-specific reprogramming effect of maternal obesity on offspring hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) function. However, the impact of maternal obesity exposure on offspring HSPC function is largely unknown, and the capability of HSPC to regulate offspring metabolic health has not been studied. Here we examined differential transcriptomes of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from male and female pups (postnatal day 21) from dams given western diet or control diet. RNA-seq revealed inflammatory gene pathways in female MatOb offspring that potentially protect HSPC function.
Project description:The study objective was to determine differentially expressed mRNA transcripts in cardiac tissues from E18.5 fetal mice e born to obese dams fed a high fat/high sugar diet and control dams fed normal diet.
Project description:Pregnant dams were treated with 0.1% or 0.04% 6-propyl-2-thiouracil (PTU) in drinking water continuously from day 13 post conception until weaning to produce hypothyroid pups. livers were collected from vehicle and 0.1% PTU treated pups at post-natal day (PND) 15 and mRNA from these was subjected to microarray analysis using Agilent high-density oligonucleotide chips.
Project description:Feeding dams during gestation affects the development of the offspring for their entire life. The objective of the current experiment was to evaluate the changes of the transcriptome in the hypothalamus of the offspring lambs born from dams supplemented with: i) a control diet (without lipids or methionine supplementation), ii) an omega 3 fatty acid supplementation, or iii) a methionine supplementation. The supplementation took place in the last third of gestation and the hypothalamus of male and female offspring was collected after being on a fattening diet for 54 days. Hypothalamus samples were used to extract RNA and analyzed using RNA sequencing. There was an interaction due to sex and methionine supplementation. The pathways that were modified were chromatin structure, developmental processes, and organ morphology. The modification observed on these pathways could explain the sex-by-treatment interaction differences previously observed in growth. There was no sex by omega-3 fatty acid interaction on the hypothalamus transcriptome. Therefore, the sexual dimorphism observed by methionine supplementation may be regulated by the hypothalamus.
Project description:Spotted seals (Phoca largha) is a critically endangered pinniped in China and South Korea. Captive in artificially controlled environment is a conventional method to protect and maintain the population of this species. However, little is known about the physiological differences between the wild and captive P. largha. In order to draw the preliminary protein expression profile in the P. largha, blood from the wild and captive pups were subjected to a label-free comparative proteomic analysis. According to the results, 972 proteins were identified, which performed functions related to various metabolic, immune and cellular processes. Among these identified proteins, the expression level of 51 proteins significantly changed between the wild and captive P. large pups. These differentially expressed proteins were enriched in a wide range of cellular functions, including cytoskeleton, phagocytosis. proteolysis, gene expression regulation and carbohydrate metabolism. The activities of phagocytosis and its related ubiquitin mediated proteolysis were significantly higher in the blood of wild P. largha pups than in captive individuals. In addition, a key protein associated with the differences in the wild and captive P. largha pups, heat shock protein 90-beta, were determined due to the most interactions of it with various differentially expressed proteins. Moreover, the wild P. largha pups could be more nutritionally stressed and have more powerful immune capacity. Our study provides the first data on the preliminary protein composition and gives useful information for the physiological characteristics research in this species.
Project description:We used a low-input strand specific total RNA library preparation kit to obtain transcriptomes from sexed ectoplacental cones of embryos from control and diet-induced obese dams. We compared expression profiles to determine which genes and pathways are altered in the tissue that will go on to develop into the placenta and extraembryonic tissue.
Project description:Pregnant dams were treated with 0.1% or 0.04% 6-propyl-2-thiouracil (PTU) in drinking water continuously from day 13 post conception until weaning to produce hypothyroid pups. Cerebella were collected from vehicle and 0.1% PTU treated pups at post-natal day (PND) 15 and mRNA from these was subjected to microarray analysis using Agilent high-density oligonucleotide chips.
Project description:In the field, adult male rodents are more frequently infected with hantaviruses than females. Early data suggests that sex steroid hormones modulate sex differences in host immune response. This project focuses on elucidating sex differences in gene expression in the lungs of infected males 15 and 40 days post infection with Seoul virus (naturally occurring hantavirus in Norway rats) relative to infected females 15 and 40 days post infection on 12 RG_U34 GeneChips. Keywords: other