Project description:Nine groups of rat tongue tissue RNA samples, including three from normal control, three from 4NQO induced tongue tissue, and three from 4NQO induced and IL-1Ra interference tongue tissue (3 rats per group) were collected for gene microarray hybridization.
Project description:Molecular characterization of 4-NQO induced F344 rat tongue carcinogenesis: alteration of multiple gene expression and hypomethylation of PTGS2 proximal promoter
Project description:Knee osteoarthritis (KOA), as a degenerative multifactorial disease, affects the quality of life and mental health of patients, and also brings a huge socioeconomic burden. Treating synovitis have shown promise as anti-inflammatory therapeutics in mitigating OA symptoms and disease progression. Here, by analysing synovial single-cell sequencing (scRNA-seq) data from KOA, we found that synovial fibroblasts (FLS) in OA synovium showed a distinct pro-inflammatory phenotype. We collected synovial tissue from patients with clinical OA as well as from healthy donors, and histological examination was consistent with findings in scRNA-seq. Inspired by recent cross-tissue fibroblast lineage studies, we identified by sequencing that healthy FLS in synovial tissues share transcriptome-level similarities with dermal fibroblasts (DFb). Subsequently, we revealed the local as well as systemic distribution of intra-articular injected DFbs by constructing/extracting two types of rat fibroblasts (luciferase DFbs as well as GFP DFbs). The results demonstrate that DFbs can be locally retained in the synovium for up to three weeks following targeted engrafting on it. And intra-articular injection does not result in DFbs migration to vital organs or the occurrence of histological changes in these organs. A rat model of KOA was constructed by anterior cruciate ligament transection (ACLT) in order to study the therapeutic effect of DFbs on KOA. After injection, the rats showed improvement in painful gait. In addition, histological as well as imaging results showed reduced synovitis and improvement in articular cartilage. Finally we verified the protective effect of DFbs on cytokine-stimulated chondrocytes in a co-culture system.
Project description:Determine whether 4NQO treatment may modulate gene expression in mouse tongue. C57BL/6J mice were given 4NQO (100ug/ml in drink) for 8 weeks; Non-treated control samples were used for comparison.
Project description:Tumor-draining lymph nodes (TdLNs) were collected from wild-type (WT) and tenascin-C knockout (TNC-KO) C57BL/6 mice (N = 3 per group), each bearing 4NQO-induced tongue tumors. Both male and female mice were included. Beginning at 12 weeks of age, mice were exposed to 4NQO via drinking water for 16 weeks. Tumors were then subjected to a single 2 Gy irradiation. TdLNs were harvested six weeks after irradiation, and total RNA was isolated for bulk RNA-seq analysis.
Project description:Nine groups of rat tongue epithelia and submucosal fibroblasts RNA samples respectively, including three from normal control, three from dysplasia, and three from carcinoma (3 rats per group) were collected for gene microarray hybridization. Significant fold changes among genes were determined by taking the ratio of the expression between dysplasia group and carcinoma group versus normal group in epithelia and fibroblasts cells
