Project description:Expression profile of colon mucosa of F344 rats treated with 5% DSS during five days vs colon mucosa of F344 rats pre-treated for 20 days with resveratrol 1mg/kg/day and during the five days of 5% DSS administration Keywords: Inflammation experiment
Project description:Expression profile of colon mucosa of F344 rats treated with 5% DSS during five days vs colon mucosa of F344 rats pre-treated for 20 days with resveratrol 1mg/kg/day and during the five days of 5% DSS administration Keywords: Inflammation experiment Two conditions experiment, colon mucosa of F344 rats treated 5% DSS for 5d vs colon mucosa of F344 rats pretreated with 1mg/kg/day resv + 5% DSS for 5d. 8 Biological samples for each group
Project description:Gene expression analysis of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH)-induced colon cancer in F344 rats. 9 tumours and their paired normal mucosa were hybridized on 4x44K Agilent Whole rat arrays.
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:In the experiment two groups of rats were compared. The control group consisted of 10 male, 5- to 6-weeks old, Fischer 344 (F344) rats (Nossan, Correzzana, Milan, Italy) fed a high fat, high sucrose, low fibre diet (control diet) for two weeks. This diet was based on the AIN76 diet [19], and was modified to contain 23% (w/w) fat (from corn oil) and a low level of cellulose (2% w/w), to mimic the high risk of colon cancer in human populations consuming high fat diets. The experimental group consisted of 10 male, 4- to 5-weeks old, F344 rats fed the same high fat diet as the control group in combination with 50 mg/kg red wine polyphenols for two weeks. The red wine polyphenol extract was prepared as described by Femia et al.<br> Total RNA was extracted using the RNeasy Midi kit (Qiagen, Milan, Italy). Equally amounts of RNA extracted from the colon mucosa of control diet-fed rats (n=10) were pooled and used as common reference for all hybridizations.