Project description:The aim of this experiment was measure the influence of age on cutaneous wound healing using human subjects. Increaded age has been associated with delayed wound healing in mouse models and in humans. Gene expression was compared between excisional biopsy wounds from young and old subjects.
Project description:Change in miRNA expression pattern during different phases of wound healing following full thickness excisional wounding was studied.
Project description:Non-healing wounds are a major area of unmet clinical need that remain problematic to treat; therefore, improved understanding of pro-healing mechanisms is invaluable. The enzyme arginase1 is involved in pro-healing responses with its role in macrophages best-characterised. Arginase1 is also expressed by keratinocytes; however, the function of arginase1 in these critical wound repair cells is not understood. We characterised arginase1 expression in keratinocytes during normal cutaneous repair and reveal de novo temporal and spatial expression at the epidermal wound edge. Interestingly, epidermal arginase1 expression was decreased in both human and murine delayed healing wounds. We, therefore, generated a keratinocyte specific arginase1-null mouse model (K14-cre;Arg1fl/fl) to explore arginase function. Wound repair, linked to changes in keratinocyte proliferation, migration and differentiation, was significantly delayed in K14-cre;Arg1fl/flmice. Gene expression was studied by microarray.
Project description:The expression profile during wound repair of cutaneous excisional wound (2x2 cm) was studied. The tissue was sampled from the centre of the open wound (day 3/7/14) or centre of the wound scar (day 21/35/70). The microarray slide were scanned in low intensity scan and high intensity scan mode.
Project description:Overexpression of activin A by keratinocytes accelerates excisional wound healing in mice. Activin-promoted wound healing is mediated via the stroma, specifically by the wound immune cells and fibroblasts. To determine if activin A alters the gene expression profile of wound fibroblasts, we performed RNA-sequencing of fibroblasts FACS-sorted from excisional skin wounds of activin overexpressing mice. We found that activin induces a pro-fibrotic gene expression profile of these fibroblasts, leading to the upregulation of genes involved in collagen biosynthesis and remodeling.
Project description:Change in miRNA expression pattern during different phases of wound healing following full thickness excisional wounding was studied. In the study presented here, a comprehensive profiling of all the mouse/rat miRs annotated in the miRBase 8.0 was performed using the FlexmiRM-bM-^DM-" MicroRNA Labeling Kit
