Project description:The conducting airway epithelium of the rodent and human lung is underlaid by mesenchymal cells that include vasculature, smooth muscle, fibroblasts and cartilage. The goal of this project is to identify cellular and molecular changes in the mesenchyme after injury to the epithelium by exposure to SO2 and which may participate in repair of the epithelium We used Affymetrix microarray analysis to compare transcripts in tracheal mesenchyme before and after SO2 injury. Mice tracheal epithelium and mesenchyme were separate for RNA extraction before and 48hrs after SO2 injury. Sample from 4 mice were pooled for each biological experiment. The experiments were repeated three times for triplicate samples.
Project description:The conducting airway epithelium of the rodent and human lung is made up of about equal proportions of ciliated and secretory cells. In addition, in regions where the epithelium is pseudostratfied, ~30% of the epithelium consists of undifferentiated basal cells (BCs). Evidence suggests that these BCs are multipotent stem cells that can self renew over the long term and give rise to both ciliated and secretory lineages. The goal of this project is to identify cellular and molecular mechanisms by which the basal cells normally maintain the epithelium and repair it after injury. We used Affymetrix microarray analysis to compare transcripts in tracheal epithelium before and after SO2 injury. Mice tracheal epithelium and mesenchyme were separate for RNA extraction before and 48hrs after SO2 injury. Cells from tracheas of 4 male C57Bl/6 mice were pooled for each biological experiment. The experiments were repeated three times for triplicate samples.
Project description:The conducting airway epithelium of the rodent and human lung is underlaid by mesenchymal cells that include vasculature, smooth muscle, fibroblasts and cartilage. The goal of this project is to identify cellular and molecular changes in the mesenchyme after injury to the epithelium by exposure to SO2 and which may participate in repair of the epithelium We used Affymetrix microarray analysis to compare transcripts in tracheal mesenchyme before and after SO2 injury.
Project description:The conducting airway epithelium of the rodent and human lung is made up of about equal proportions of ciliated and secretory cells. In addition, in regions where the epithelium is pseudostratfied, ~30% of the epithelium consists of undifferentiated basal cells (BCs). Evidence suggests that these BCs are multipotent stem cells that can self renew over the long term and give rise to both ciliated and secretory lineages. The goal of this project is to identify cellular and molecular mechanisms by which the basal cells normally maintain the epithelium and repair it after injury. We used Affymetrix microarray analysis to compare transcripts in tracheal epithelium before and after SO2 injury.
Project description:The goals of this study is to compare transcriptome profiles (RNA-seq) of zebrafish spinal cord before and after injury. The five segments rostral and five segments caudal to the lesion site were collected from three adult fish at one, two, four, and six weeks post injury. Corresponding segments were also collected from uninjured animals. Total RNA was extracted and cDNA libraries (N=4-5) were subjected to Illumina sequencing. Differential expression analysis was performed using DESeq2. The resulting P-values were adjusted using the Benjamini and Hochberg’s approach for controlling the false discovery rate.We mapped about 40-80 million sequence reads per sample to the zebrafish genome and identified 37,603 transcripts in the injured and uninjured zebrafish spinal cord. Our study represents the detailed analysis of zebrafish spinal cord transcriptomes before and after injury.