Project description:miRNA profiling of mouse kidney arteriolar smooth muscle cells (aSMCs) of the renin lineage comparing control untreated cells with cells treated with forskolin to induce renin expression. Two condition experiment: control untreated aSMCs vs forskolin treated aSMCs; Biological replicates: control 3, treated 3; independently grown and harvested. One replicate per array.
Project description:miRNA profiling of mouse kidney arteriolar smooth muscle cells (aSMCs) of the renin lineage comparing control untreated cells with cells treated with forskolin to induce renin expression.
Project description:miRNA profiling of mouse kidney cortex comparing control vs. low sodium diet + captopril treatment to induce renin expression. Two condition experiment: control vs treated; biological replicates: individual mice - 3 control, 3 treated. One replicate per array.
Project description:Libraries were made to compare the transcriptome of renin lineage cells (RLCs) from wild-type versus ren knockout zebrafish kidneys. RLCs were FAC sorted from pooled kidneys of ren+/+ or ren-/- zebrafish, which carried ren:RFP and acta2:EGFP reporter genes, allowing the isolation of renin-expressing cells and smooth muscle cells.
Project description:Renin, a key component in the regulation of blood pressure in mammals, is produced by the rare and highly specialized juxtaglomerular (JG) cells of the kidney. Although these cells line the media of the glomerular afferent arterioles and share some characteristics with contractile cells, they are filled with lysosome-like organelles where renin is activated and stored for regulated secretion in response to physiological and pathophysiological stimuli. Chronic stimulation of renin release results in a recruitment of new JG cells by the seeming conversion of adjacent smooth muscle cells along the afferent arterioles. Because JG cells rapidly de-differentiate when removed from the kidney, their developmental origin and the mechanism that explains their phenotypic plasticity remain largely unclear. In an effort to overcome this limitation, we have performed RNA expression analysis on four human renin-producing tumors. The most highly expressed genes that were common between the reninomas were subsequently used for in situ hybridization in mouse kidney. Our results add 40 new genes to the list that characterize renin-producing cells and reveal a significant variation in the expression patterns of developing, mature and recruited JG cells.
Project description:We used microarrays to detail transcriptional changes in cultured human smooth muscle cells in response to acute and chronic 2-methoxyestradiol treatment 2-ME, an endogenous metabolite. of estradiol, not only exerts cytotoxic effects on cancer cells but it also protects against multiple proliferative disorders, including atherosclerosis and injury-induced intimal thickening Keywords: treatment vs. control Human aortic smooth muscle cells cultures with/without 2-methoxyestradiol (acute/chronic treatment)
Project description:We used microarrays to detail transcriptional changes in cultured human smooth muscle cells in response to acute and chronic 2-methoxyestradiol treatment 2-ME, an endogenous metabolite. of estradiol, not only exerts cytotoxic effects on cancer cells but it also protects against multiple proliferative disorders, including atherosclerosis and injury-induced intimal thickening Keywords: treatment vs. control
Project description:Selective stimulation of IL-4 receptor on smooth muscle induces airway hyper-responsiveness in mice. Abstract: Production of the cytokines IL-4 and IL-13 is increased in both human asthma and mouse asthma models and Stat6 activation by the common IL-4/IL-13R drives most mouse model pathophysiology, including airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). However, the precise cellular mechanisms through which IL-4Rα induces AHR remain unclear. Overzealous bronchial smooth muscle constriction is thought to underlie AHR in human asthma, but the smooth muscle contribution to AHR has never been directly assessed. Furthermore, differences in mouse vs. human airway anatomy and observations that selective IL-13 stimulation of Stat6 in airway epithelium induces murine AHR raise questions about the importance of direct IL-4R effects on smooth muscle in murine asthma models and relevance of these models to human asthma. Using transgenic mice in which smooth muscle is the only cell type that expresses or fails to express IL-4Rα, we demonstrate that direct smooth muscle activation by IL-4, IL-13, or allergen is sufficient, but not necessary, to induce AHR and show that 5 genes known to promote smooth muscle migration, proliferation and contractility are activated by IL-13 in smooth muscle in vivo. These observations demonstrate that IL-4Rα promotes AHR through multiple mechanisms and provide a model for testing smooth muscle-directed asthma therapeutics. For the microarray aspect of of the study, there were three groups of mice: 1. IL4R gene knockout (KO) mice 2. WT mice 3. IL4R KO mice that were also transgenic for a gene construct that expressed IL4R under the control of the smooth muscle-specific promoter from the SMP8 gene All mice were subjected to intratracheal IL13 exposure for 7 days, and whole lung RNA was prepared for microarray analysis 24 hours after the last instillation. Per treatment and genotype: Two RNA pools were made from four mice each. These were labeled and hybridized to make a total of 6 microarrays. RNA was labeled with the standard Affymetrix 3' labeling protocol to make cDNA that was hybridized to Mouse MOE 430 plus 2.0 GeneChips. Gene transcripts were identified that differed in their relative expression as a function of IL4R expression on the smooth muscle cells.
