Project description:Furan is a mouse and rat hepatocarcinogen. We sought to determine the dose-dependent changes in gene expression upon exposure of B6C3F1 mice to furan in order to better understand furan’s mode of action. In this study we examined the transcriptional response in liver tissue of female B6C3F1 mice to BrdU treatment (in drinking water for 5 days before sacrifice). This was a toxicogenomic study in which mice were also exposed to 0, 1 or 8 mg/kg bw furan (by oral gavage) for 3 weeks. Mice were sacrificed four hours after the final furan exposure. Each dose group had 4-5 biological replicates. We used a two-colour reference design and SurePrint G3 Mouse GE 8x60K microarrays (Agilent). Please note that data for all non-BrdU treated animals was previously reported in GEO [GSE48644]. All samples (with or without BrdU) were part of the same randomized block design for the microarrays.
Project description:Furan is a mouse and rat hepatocarcinogen. We sought to determine the dose-dependent changes in gene expression upon exposure of B6C3F1 mice to furan in order to better understand furan’s mode of action. Adult female B6C3F1 mice were exposed to 1, 2, 4 or 8 mg/kg bw furan or vehicle control (corn oil) for three weeks and sacrificed four hours after the final exposure.
Project description:Furan is a mouse and rat hepatocarcinogen. We sought to determine the dose-dependent changes in gene expression upon exposure of B6C3F1 mice to furan in order to better understand furan’s mode of action.
Project description:Furan is a mouse and rat hepatocarcinogen. We sought to determine the dose-dependent changes in gene expression upon exposure of B6C3F1 mice to furan in order to better understand furan’s mode of action. Adult female B6C3F1 mice were exposed to 1, 2, 4 or 8 mg/kg bw furan or vehicle control (corn oil) for three weeks and sacrificed four hours after the final exposure. In this study we examined the transcriptional response in liver tissue of female B6C3F1 mice exposed to furan for 3 weeks at four different doses: 1, 2, 4 or 8 mg/kg bw furan (or vehicle control) and sacrificed four hours after the final exposure. Each dose group had 4-5 biological replicates. There were a total of 25 samples included in the final analysis. We used a two-colour reference design and SurePrint G3 Mouse GE 8x60K microarrays (Agilent).
Project description:We created mice, which are deficient for Myc specifically in cardiac myocytes by crossing crossed Myc-floxed mice (Mycfl/fl) and MLC-2VCre/+ mice. Serial analysis of earlier stages of gestation revealed that Myc-deficient mice died prematurely at E13.5-14.5. Morphological analyses of E13.5 Myc-null embryos showed normal ventricular size and structure; however, decreased cardiac myocyte proliferation and increased apoptosis was observed. BrdU incorporation rates were also decreased significantly in Myc-null myocardium. Myc-null mice displayed a 3.67-fold increase in apoptotic cardiomyocytes by TUNEL assay. We examined global gene expression using oligonucleotide microarrays. Numerous genes involved in mitochondrial death pathways were dysregulated including Bnip3L and Birc2. Keywords: wildtype vs Myc-null
Project description:Cell death and regenerative proliferation pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma: The effect of furan on B6C3F1 mouse global gene expression in liver
Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.