Project description:Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by T cell-mediated destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic β-cells. The pathogenesis of T1D is not fully understood but involves development of autoantibodies (AAbs) followed by a progressive decline in first phase insulin response. Live imaging of T1D pancreatic slices has revealed β cell dysfunction irrespective of the acute presence or absence of CD3+ T cells. However, the mechanisms that drive this dysfunction in the prediabetic period remain unclear. In-situ longitudinal studies of human islet cell biology in the context of T1D are essentially impossible. Hence, we leveraged the availability of pancreas tissues from the Network for Pancreatic Organ donors with Diabetes (nPOD) program to phenotypically and transcriptionally characterize laser capture-microdissected islets across the natural history of T1D.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to identify differentially expressed genes in laser-capture microdissected (LCM) invasive mammary carcinomas (IMCs).
Project description:The purpose of this study was to identify differentially expressed genes in laser-capture microdissected (LCM) invasive mammary carcinomas (IMCs). Invasive mammary carcinoma of the breast surgical resection specimens were laser capture microdissected for RNA extraction and hybridization to Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:We performed gene expression profiling of laser capture microdissected normal non-neoplastic prostate (cystoprostatectomies) epithelial tissue and compared it to non-transformed and neoplastic low and high grade prostate epithelial tissue from radical prostatectomies, each with its immediately surrounding stroma.
Project description:Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry was used to study tumor matrisome from laser capture microdissected FFPE tissue sections of human neck and squamous cell carcinoma (HnSCC) xenograft grown in mouse.
Project description:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are scarcely present in the inflamed human atherosclerotic plaque, where they are presumed to exert pro-inflammatory functions through release of type I interferons. However, the precise role of pDCs in human atherosclerosis yet remains to be established. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying cellularisation and identified distinct classes of up-regulated genes during this process. We investigated the impact of human plaque pDCs on its local context, applying state of the art transcriptomics analysis on Laser Capture Microdissected fractions of human atherosclerotic plaques, distinctively enriched in pDCs, or pDCs-void.
Project description:We compared the gene expression analysis of 2 different glomerular isolation techniques (laser capture microdissection with 2 rounds of RNA amplification and unamplified glomerular RNA after iron perfusion with glomerular sieving) and obtained different results depending on the glomerular isolation technique that was used Keywords: time course
Project description:Fresh frozen sections of islets obtained by surgery were laser capture microdissected using autofluorescence to guide selection of beta cell areas of the islet. RNA was extracted and amplified with 2 rounds of T7 linear amplification. Two technical replicates were hybridized to Affymetrix U95Av2 arrays.