Project description:Surgical specimens from children with infantile hemangioma or lymphatic malformations, as well as healthy appearing adjacent skin, were analyzed by microarray analysis of microRNA expression. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering was performed to identify microRNAs that were differentially expressed in IH compared to lymphatic malformations and skin 19 patients who underwent surgical excision of either a lymphatic malformation or infantile hemangioma were used in the study. 5 patients have multiple samples on the array and these duplicates are from different regions of the excised tissue or separate lesions as indicated. Tissue was snap frozen in liquid nitrogen and used for RNA extraction
Project description:Surgical specimens from children with infantile hemangioma or lymphatic malformations, as well as healthy appearing adjacent skin, were analyzed by microarray analysis of microRNA expression. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering was performed to identify microRNAs that were differentially expressed in IH compared to lymphatic malformations and skin
Project description:Analysis of ex vivo isolated lymphatic endothelial cells from the dermis of patients to define type 2 diabetes-induced changes. Results preveal aberrant dermal lymphangiogenesis and provide insight into its role in the pathogenesis of persistent skin inflammation in type 2 diabetes. The ex vivo dLEC transcriptome reveals a dramatic influence of the T2D environment on multiple molecular and cellular processes, mirroring the phenotypic changes seen in T2D affected skin. The positively and negatively correlated dLEC transcripts directly cohere to prolonged inflammatory periods and reduced infectious resistance of patients´ skin. Further, lymphatic vessels might be involved in tissue remodeling processes during T2D induced skin alterations associated with impaired wound healing and altered dermal architecture. Hence, dermal lymphatic vessels might be directly associated with T2D disease promotion. Global gene expression profile of normal dermal lymphatic endothelial cells (ndLECs) compared to dermal lymphatic endothelial cells derived from type 2 diabetic patients (dLECs).Quadruplicate biological samples were analyzed from human lymphatic endothelial cells (4 x diabetic; 4 x non-diabetic). subsets: 1 disease state set (dLECs), 1 control set (ndLECs)
Project description:Analysis of ex vivo isolated lymphatic endothelial cells from the dermis of patients to define type 2 diabetes-induced changes. Results preveal aberrant dermal lymphangiogenesis and provide insight into its role in the pathogenesis of persistent skin inflammation in type 2 diabetes. The ex vivo dLEC transcriptome reveals a dramatic influence of the T2D environment on multiple molecular and cellular processes, mirroring the phenotypic changes seen in T2D affected skin. The positively and negatively correlated dLEC transcripts directly cohere to prolonged inflammatory periods and reduced infectious resistance of patients´ skin. Further, lymphatic vessels might be involved in tissue remodeling processes during T2D induced skin alterations associated with impaired wound healing and altered dermal architecture. Hence, dermal lymphatic vessels might be directly associated with T2D disease promotion.
Project description:To investigate the role of Ubiquitination in the progression of infantile hemangioma. And to investigate the role of OTUB1 in infantile hemangioma
Project description:Whole transcriptome comparisons of proliferating pure cultures of neonatal dermal microvacsular endothelial cells to infantile hemangioma endothelial cells. The total RNA was obtained from human dermal microvascular endothelial cells and infantile hemangioma endothelial cells. Illumina microarrays were performed to determine the whole genome expression differences between the cell lines.
Project description:Microcystic and macrocystic lymphatic malformations are similar but clinically distinct infantile malformations, with distinct clinical responses and prognoses. In this study, we identify considerable differences in gene expression between the microcystic and macrocystic malformation subtypes with respect to healthy tissue.
Project description:Our team found that 15,16-dihydrotanshinone I (DHTS) was significantly effective at inhibiting infantile hemangioma proliferation in vitro and in vivo. To investigate the underlying mechanism by which DHTS inhibits hemangioma, we compared the transcriptomes of control and DHTS-treated hemangioma cells.
