Project description:Subcutaneous adipose tissue gene expression profiles from women with PCOS, compared with age and BMI matched healthy controls (matched at group-level).
Project description:Subcutaneous adipose tissue gene expression profiles from women with PCOS, compared with age and BMI matched healthy controls (matched at group-level). A cross-section comparison was made between women with and without PCOS
Project description:In previous studies, multiple animal models (rhesus monkeys, sheep) have suggested a developmental programming effect of PCOS. The goal of this study was to examine whether developmental programming may accompany epigenetic changes by examining intrinsic epigenetic differences, specifically chromatin accessibility, in adipose stem cells (ASCs) from subcutaneous (SC) adipose tissue of PCOS women vs age- and BMI-matched control samples as they mature into adipocytes in vitro.
Project description:In this study, different adipose tissue samples (visceral (omental), subcutaneous, epiploic) from patients with different insulin status were collected. For the proteome analyses a sub-cohort consisting of nine insulin sensitive subjects, matched to nine insulin resistant subjects by sex, age and BMI.
Project description:We examined the transcriptional profile of subcutaneous adipose tissue in Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) patients compared to a control cohort matched for gender and BMI
Project description:Why ~70% of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have intrinsic insulin resistance (IR), above and beyond that associated with body mass, including dysfunctional glucose metabolism in adipose tissue (AT), remains a fundamental question. In these experiments, we sought to explore the role of miRNAs in the AT of PCOS and matched controls. Analysis determined that PCOS AT has a differentially expressed miRNA profile, including upregulated miR-93. We observed a significant association between HOMA-IR, and GLUT4 and miR-93 expression in human AT. Our results point to a novel mechanism for regulating insulin-stimulated glucose uptake via miR-93, and demonstrate upregulated miR-93 expression in PCOS, possibly accounting for the IR of the syndrome, and also in non-PCOS women with IR. We performed miRNA microarrays to determine PCOS-related miRNA expression in adipose derived from lean PCOS patients and matched control women. We analyized miRNA from total RNA extracted from subcutaneous (sc) adipose tissue from three lean PCOS patients and three matched control women.
Project description:Subcutaneous adipose tissue was collected from 23 PCOS cases and 13 healthy controls, and snap frozen in LN2 at collection. DNA and RNA was extracted and stored. Gene expression arrays were run in all samples.
Project description:The aim of the project was to compare global gene expression in adipocytes from obese patients and lean controls. Subcutaneous adipose tissue was collected from severely obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery (average body-mass index (BMI) of 45.5 kg/m2 (n = 12, thereof 4 men) and healthy lean patients undergoing hernia repairs (average BMI of 24.2 kg/m2 (n = 12, thereof 7 men), between 27 and 56 years of age. Adipocytes were isolated by collagenase treatment of adipose tissue, followed by filtering and centrifugation. Floating adipocytes were lysed in Qiazol before RNA purification and microarray analysis.
Project description:Animal studies have linked disturbed adipose tissue clock gene rhythms to the pathophysiology of the metabolic syndrome. However, data on molecular clock rhythms in human patients are limited. Therefore, in a standardized real life setting, we compared diurnal gene expression profiles in subcutaneous adipose tissue between obese patients with type 2 diabetes and age-matched healthy lean control subjects, using RNA sequencing. In patients, 1.8% (303 genes) of expressed genes showed significant diurnal rhythms, compared to 8.4% (1421 genes) in healthy controls. In patients, the core clock genes showed reduced amplitude oscillations. Enrichment analysis revealed a loss of rhythm in canonical metabolic pathways including AMPK signaling and cAMP mediated signaling in patients. In conclusion, we provide the first transcriptomics atlas of human adipose tissue diurnal rhythms, and show evidence of decreased diurnal clock and metabolic gene expression rhythms in subcutaneous adipose tissue of obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Project description:Subcutaneous adipose tissue and visceral adipose tissue samples were obtained from severely obese individuals that underwent bariatric surgery. The goal of this study was to compare genome-wide gene expression levels in the two tissue types from healthy and unhealthy severely obese individuals. Whole-transcriptome subcutaneous adipose tissue gene expression levels were determined in 73 individuals with a BMI >35 kg/m2. Whole-transcriptome visceral adipose tissue gene expression levels were determined in 69 individuals with a BMI >35 kg/m2. Modules of co-expressed genes likely to be functionally related were identfied and correlated with BMI, plasma levels of glucose, insulin, HbA1c, triglycerides, non-esterified fatty acids, ALAT, ASAT, C-reactive protein, and LDL- and HDL cholesterol.
