Project description:Microarray analyses of laser microdissected murine intestinal epithelial cells under the control of maternal inflammation at 17.5 days post conception demonstrates that maternal inflammation differentially regulates 2174 (iWT) and 3345 (iARE) genes in fetal tissue, but these transcriptional profiles were overwritten in the postnatal environment dominated by tissue inflammation at 8 weeks postnatal. We isolated 50 ng total RNA out of laser microdissected fetal and adult intestinal epithelial cells from the distal ileum and performed microarrays to address whether maternal inflammation programs the fetal intestine towards TNF-driven pathology
Project description:RNA-seq analysis of total RNA isolated from laser capture microdissected intestinal epithelium. The analysis aimed at characterizing the epithelial gene expression changes in IBD patients vs. healthy controls.
Project description:Microarray analyses of laser microdissected murine intestinal epithelial cells under the control of maternal inflammation at 17.5 days post conception demonstrates that maternal inflammation differentially regulates 2174 (iWT) and 3345 (iARE) genes in fetal tissue, but these transcriptional profiles were overwritten in the postnatal environment dominated by tissue inflammation at 8 weeks postnatal. We isolated 50 ng total RNA out of laser microdissected fetal and adult intestinal epithelial cells from the distal ileum and performed microarrays to address whether maternal inflammation programs the fetal intestine towards TNF-driven pathology Conventionally raised heterozygous TnfM-NM-^TARE/+ and Tnf+/+ wild type mice on C57BL/6 background were used for this study. Female Tnf+/+ wild type (WT) mice were bred with male TnfM-NM-^TARE/+ (ARE) mice and vice versa, generating offspring from healthy WT dams (WT and ARE) and inflamed ARE dams (iWT and iARE). On day 17.5 post conception (dpc) and 8 weeks postnatal the fetuses and offspring were sacrificed.The gut was freshly frozen in Optimal Cutting Temperature (O.C.T.) embedding compound (Sakura Finetek, Torrance, USA) on dry ice and stored at -80M-BM-0C until laser microdissection.
Project description:PURPOSE: To provide a detailed gene expression profile of the normal postnatal mouse cornea. METHODS: Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) was performed on postnatal day (PN)9 and adult mouse (6 week) total corneas. The expression of selected genes was analyzed by in situ hybridization. RESULTS: A total of 64,272 PN9 and 62,206 adult tags were sequenced. Mouse corneal transcriptomes are composed of at least 19,544 and 18,509 unique mRNAs, respectively. One third of the unique tags were expressed at both stages, whereas a third was identified exclusively in PN9 or adult corneas. Three hundred thirty-four PN9 and 339 adult tags were enriched more than fivefold over other published nonocular libraries. Abundant transcripts were associated with metabolic functions, redox activities, and barrier integrity. Three members of the Ly-6/uPAR family whose functions are unknown in the cornea constitute more than 1% of the total mRNA. Aquaporin 5, epithelial membrane protein and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) omega-1, and GST alpha-4 mRNAs were preferentially expressed in distinct corneal epithelial layers, providing new markers for stratification. More than 200 tags were differentially expressed, of which 25 mediate transcription. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to providing a detailed profile of expressed genes in the PN9 and mature mouse cornea, the present SAGE data demonstrate dynamic changes in gene expression after eye opening and provide new probes for exploring corneal epithelial cell stratification, development, and function and for exploring the intricate relationship between programmed and environmentally induced gene expression in the cornea. Keywords: other
Project description:We applied RNA-seq analysis of total RNA isolated from laser capture microdissected intestinal epithelium. The analysis aimed at charactericing the gene expression seen in ulcer-associated cell lineage epithelial cells, and to contrast this with that of healthy control epithelium and epithelium from inflammatory bowel disease-patients with active inflammation.