Project description:Embryonic stem cells differentiated into embryoid bodies. Their expression pattern will be compared to that of the same cells grown in regular growth conditions. A study of the differential gene expression of these two populations should reveal genes whose expression is necessary for the maintenance of the stem cell phenotype. Keywords: other
Project description:Embryonic stem cells differentiated into embryoid bodies. Their expression pattern will be compared to that of the same cells grown in regular growth conditions. A study of the differential gene expression of these two populations should reveal genes whose expression is necessary for the maintenance of the stem cell phenotype. Experiment Overall Design: this experiment include 2 samples and 12 replicates
Project description:Embryonic stem (ES) cells, when grown in suspension culture without feeders, spontaneously form round structures known as embryoid bodies. Given the appropriate conditions, these cells can differentiate over time into precursors of all three germ layers. Embryoid bodies, in a disorganized way, mimic early embryonic development to a certain extent and can be used as a synchronously differentiating large scale source of tissue for the study of biological determinants of early differentiation. Embryoid bodies have been used as a source for most early protocols that derive specific differentiated cell types from undifferentiated ES cells, although some protocols, notably those that derive neurons from ES cells, have moved on from EBs as a result of varying replicability and yield. We have decided to look at the transcriptomic profiles of embryoid bodies during the initial stages of embryoid body formation and differentiation, in order to pinpoint novel determinants of key developmental stages. Keywords: time course
Project description:We used microarrays to identify the gene expression changes in Cbx1-/- (HP1beta) knockout embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and Cbx5-/- (HP1alpha) knockout ESCs compared to WT ESCs and in embryoid bodies (EBs) differentiated from those three ESC types. ESCs were grown and the pluripotent SSEA1-positive cells from all ESC types using MACS were sorted and harvested or sorted and differentiated into EBs. Total RNA from all samples was extracted.
Project description:Bright null mouse embryonic stem cells and spontaneously reprogrammed Bright null cells compared to WT mouse embryonic stem cells;Work further described in Popowski et. al 2013 Bright null mouse embryonic stem cells and wildtype mouse embryonic stem cells differentiated in embryoid bodies at day 6 and day 15
Project description:time-course experiment with embryoid bodies of CGR8 mouse embryonic stem cells ; in the whole time-series RNA from 0 days old embryoid bodies were hybridized against RNA from 3 days and 10 days old embryoid bodies Keywords = embryoid bodies Keywords = mouse Keywords = time-course Keywords = oligonucleotide array Keywords: time-course
Project description:Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune destruction of pancreatic islet beta cell disease, and it is important to find new alternative source of the islet beta cells to replace the damaged cells. Human embryonic stem (hES) cells possess unlimited self-renewal and pluripotency and thus have the potential to provide an unlimited supply of different cell types for tissue replacement. The hES-T3 cells with normal female karyotype were first differentiated into embryoid bodies and then induced to generate the pancreatic islet-like cell clusters, which expressed pancreatic islet cell-specific markers of insulin, glucagon and somatostatin. The expression profiles of microRNAs and mRNAs from the pancreatic islet-like cell clusters were further analyzed and compared with those of undifferentiated hES-T3 cells and differentiated embryoid bodies. MicroRNAs negatively regulate the expression of protein-coding mRNAs. The pancreatic islet-like cell clusters were found to exhibit very high expression of microRNAs miR-186, miR-199a and miR-339, which down-regulated the expression of LIN28, PRDM1, CALB1, GCNT2, RBM47, PLEKHH1, RBPMS2 and PAK6. Therefore, these microRNAs are very likely to play important regulatory roles in the differentiation of pancreatic islet cells and early embryonic development. In this investigation, both miRNA and mRNA expression profiles from the pancreatic islet-like cell clusters differentiated from hES-T3 cells (T3pi) were quantitatively determined and compared with those of undifferentiated hES-T3 cells grown on mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) feeder (T3ES) and embryoid bodies differentiated from hES-T3 cells (T3EB). Several target genes of pancreatic islet cell-specific miRNAs were identified. ***This submission represents the mRNA expression component of the study only***
Project description:Undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells stably expressing the HOXB1 transcription factor under doxycycline tet-on control were differentiated into embryoid bodies. Nestin+ neuroepithelial cells were selected by transfer of the embryoid bodies to ISTFn media. Expression of HOXB1 was induced by addition of doxycycline or not induced on the seventh day of selection and also for one day after trypsination and transfer to laminin/polyornithine substrate on matrigel substrate.
Project description:We differentiated mouse embryonic stem (mES) cells spontaneously into embryoid bodies (EBs). Gene expression of biological replicates of undifferentiated ES cells (0-day), 4-day, 8-day and 14-day EBs were measured by Affymetrix microarrays. Keywords: time course
Project description:We used microarrays to identify the gene expression changes in Cbx1-/- (HP1beta) knockout embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and Cbx5-/- (HP1alpha) knockout ESCs compared to WT ESCs and in embryoid bodies (EBs) differentiated from those three ESC types.
