Project description:C57BL/6J male mice (11 weeks old) were randomly divided into two groups fed either the control (Con) diet (LabDiet 5010) or fiber deficiency (FD) diet for 15 weeks.
Project description:Fatty acid transport protein 2 (FATP2) is highly expressed in liver, small intestine, and kidney where it functions in both the uptake of exogenous long chain fatty acids (LCFAs) and in the activation to CoA thioesters of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs). Here we address the phenotypic impacts of deleting FATP2 followed by an unbiased RNA-seq analysis of the liver transcriptome. Wild type (C57BL/6J) and fatp2 null (fatp2-/-) mice (5 weeks old) were maintained on a standard chow diet for 6 weeks (11 weeks old). The male fatp2-/- mice had 258 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and the female mice had a total of 91. Of significance was the finding that most of the genes with increased expression in the fatp2-/- liver are regulated by the transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα). Taken together, FATP2 has a broad impact on the expression of key lipid metabolic genes in the liver regulated by PPARα.
Project description:To quantify gene expression differences in olfactory epithelium between the mouse (Mus musculus) and the Nile rat (Arvicanthis niloticus), paired-end RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) was used to profile olfactory epithelium transcriptomes of six Nile rats and six mice (C57BL/6J) (one male and one female at the age of 8, 12, and 16 weeks for each species).
Project description:The purpose of this project is to determine changes in proteins and signaling pathways in injured tendons of C57BL/6j and MRL/MpJ mice. The MRL.MpJ mice have been reported to have a strong repair ability compared to that of C57BL/6j mice. Identifying signaling pathways in MRL/MpJ tendons that are distinct from C57BL/6j tendons will help us understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the better healing ability of MRL/MpJ mice. The samples include normal and injured Achilles tendons 4 weeks after tenotomy surgery obtained from male and female C57BL/6j and MRL/MpJ. The Achilles injury surgery was performed at 12 weeks of age. Normal tendons were obtained age, sex and strain-matched mice without surgery. The collected normal and inured tendons were subjected to proteomics.
