Project description:8-cell stage rat embryos were sired by males treated with saline or a chemotherapeutic cocktail, BEP, consisting of Bleomycin, Etoposide, and Cisplatin for 9 weeks. Animals were given an additional 9 weeks of recovery, without any treatment, prior to mating. qPCR gene expression profiling for 84 stem cell transcription factors. Total RNA extracted from 25-35 embryos at the eight-cell stage sired by control or BEP-treated males after a 9-wk recovery period (2 females mated per male, n= 4 males/treatment).
Project description:8-cell stage rat embryos were sired by males treated with saline or a chemotherapeutic cocktail, BEP, consisting of Bleomycin, Etoposide, and Cisplatin for 9 weeks. Animals were given an additional 9 weeks of recovery, without any treatment, prior to mating.
Project description:In order to establish a rat embryonic stem cell transcriptome, mRNA from rESC cell line DAc8, the first male germline competent rat ESC line to be described and the first to be used to generate a knockout rat model was characterized using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis.
Project description:Analysis of LBNF1 rat testes from controls, containing both somatic and all germ cell types and from irradiated rats in which all cells germ cells except type A spermatgogonia are eliminated. Results provide insight into distinguishing germ and somatic cell genes and identification of somatic cell genes that are upregulated after irradiation.
