Project description:We collected the Superficial temporal artery (STA) tissues from patients with Moyamoya disease who underwent combined direct and indirect bypass surgery and patients with brain trauma requiring craniotomy in the Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (Anhui Provincial Hospital). One part was fixed in 10% neutral formalin solution, and the other part was stored in a refrigerator at -80 ℃. All protocols using human specimens were approved by the ethics committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (Anhui Provincial Hospital). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. All protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (Anhui Provincial Hospital).Total RNA was extracted from the STA tissues using Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The integrity and concentration of RNA were detected using an Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100 system (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif., USA), enriched and purified with Oligo (dT) -bearing magnetic beads. RNA sequencing was performed by Anoroad (Beijing, China).
Project description:This experiment is part of the FunGenES project (FunGenES - Functional Genomics in Embryonic Stem Cells partially funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union, http://www.fungenes.org). The experiment was conducted at University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Goal of the experiment was RNA expression profiling in the first 10 days of differentiation in CGR8 cells. Materials and methods: CGR8 cells were cultivated as EBs without addition of selective reagents in hanging drop cultures in a timecourse experiment. After 7 days, EBs were plated in gelatin-coated 6-well plates. RNA was prepared from ES cells (day 0), EBs (day 1 to 7) and plated EBs (day 10). Culture conditions: ES cells were differentiated via hanging drop protocol into embryoid bodies. RNA isolation method: The RNA isolation was carried out following standard methods (on column, RNeasy Mini kit, Qiagen)
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma samples were obtained after patients provided written informed consent and with the approval of the institutional research ethics board at the Liver Cancer Institute of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (Shanghai, China). Fresh tumor tissues were implanted in NOD/SCID mice. Tumor lines were successfully maintained through multiple rounds of serial transplantation. We used microarrays to evaluate the genotype similarity between patient tumor and patient-derived xenograft (PDX).
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma samples were obtained after patients provided written informed consent and with the approval of the institutional research ethics board at the Liver Cancer Institute of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (Shanghai, China). Fresh tumor tissues were implanted in NOD/SCID mice. Tumor lines were successfully maintained through multiple rounds of serial transplantation. We used microarrays to evaluate the expression similarity between patient tumor and patient-derived xenograft (PDX).
Project description:This experiment comprises 283 CEL files generated on the Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 gene expression microarray platform, using patient peripheral blood and bone marrow samples from the first cohort of patients accrued to Children's Oncology Group Study AALL0232. No clinical covariate data is provided at this time as the clinical study is not yet published. Researchers who would like to request outcome or other covariate data are asked to contact Dr. Cheryl Willman, cwillman@unm.edu, 505.272.5622 (University of New Mexico) and Dr. Steven Hunger, Stephen.Hunger@childrenscolorado.org (Children's Oncology Group and Children's Hospital Colorado) to arrange a collaboration.