Project description:To identify molecular mechanism underlying the protection from diet-induced hepatic steatosis in AHNAK deficiency mice, we examined microarray analysis with liver sample from HFD-fed AHNAK KO and WT mice. Two-condition experiment, regular chow (CD) -fed WT vs. CD-fed AHNAK KO and High fat diet(HFD)-fed WT vs. HFD-fed AHNAK KO mice. Biological replicates: 3 control, One replicate per array.
Project description:Liver samples of mice harboring liver-specific deletion of Lats2 (Lats2-CKO) were compared to WT mice. This effect was tested along with the effect of diet - high cholesterol diet (Paigen-PD) vs. normal chow (ND).
Project description:The popularity of high fat foods in modern society has been associated with epidemic of various metabolic diseases characterized by insulin resistance, the pathology of which involves complex interactions between multiple tissues such as liver, skeletal muscle and white adipose tissue (WAT). To uncover the mechanism by which excessive fat impairs insulin sensitivity, we conducted a multi- tissue study by using TMT-based quantitative proteomics. 3-week-old ICR mice were fed with high fat diet (HFD) for 19 weeks to induce insulin resistance. Liver, skeletal muscle and epididymal fat were collected for proteomics screening. Additionally, PRM was used for validating adipose differential proteins. By comparing tissue-specific protein profiles of HFD mice, multi-tissue regulation of glucose and lipid homeostasis and corresponding underlying mechanisms was systematically investigated and characterized. NC: normal birth weight + chow diet; NH: normal birth weight + high fat diet; LC: low birth weight + chow diet; LH: low birth weight + high fat diet.
Project description:Both PIK3R1(Y657X) mutant and wild-type C57Bl/6J mice were maintained on chow until 16 weeks old, at which time they were fasted for 16 hours and then refed chow for 6 hours. The tissues were harvested and snap-frozen at three time points: chow diet before overnight fast (ad libitum chow, ALC), after 16 hour fast (overnight fast, ONF), and after 6 hour refeeding (refed 6 hours, RF6).
Project description:We performed RNA-sequencing of liver, visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues from Fam13a KO/WT mice on high fat diet and chow. We observed genes in pathways relevant to adipose biology to be differentially expressed between WT and KO, and there to be a more pervasive effect of Fam13a KO on the transcriptome in SAT when compared to VAT.
Project description:Apolipoprotein E-knock out (apoE-KO) mouse is known as a model animal for atherosclerosis accompanied by spontaneous hypercholesterolemia. When apoE-KO mice were fed a chow supplemented with 1.25% cholesterol (high-Chol diet), cholesterol and bile acids were highly increased in the liver within a week. However, the amount of triacylglycerol (TG) in very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), but not in the liver, was reduced by 78%. The epididymal adipose tissue was almost diminished in the long term. Cholesterol metabolism is tightly regulated by both cholesterol and its metabolites in the mammalian liver, but the regulatory mechanism of TG synthesis remains to be elucidated. To evaluate the impact of high-Chol diet for 1 week on gene expression in the liver of apoE-KO mice, DNA microarray analysis was performed with comparison to apoE-KO mice fed a normal chow. We found that mRNA expression related to lipid metabolism was suppressed by the high-Chol diet in the liver of apoE-KO mice, which includes beta-oxidation and glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) pathway for TG synthesis. In particular, the mRNA and protein expression of lipin-1 and lipin-2 was markedly decreased. PGC-1?, which up-regulates the transcription of lipin-1, was also suppressed. Lipin is reported to function as a coactivator of PGC-1? and is an inducible amplifier of PPAR?, indicating that the suppression of genes involved in beta-oxidation could be induced by suppression of the lipins. These data using apoE-KO mice indicate that cholesterol and its metabolites are involved in regulating TG metabolism through a suppression of lipin-1 and lipin-2 in the liver. This research provides evidence for the mechanism of lipin expression in the liver. Apo E-KO mice at 10 weeks of age were fed normal chow (control) or high-Chol diet containing 1.25% cholesterol for 1 week. Three independent experiments were performed at each diet.
Project description:The pancreas islets RNA expressions were compared between WT (exon2 floxed) mice and Cdh13 KO (exon2 deleted) mice. The islets were isolated from the mice at 8wks old, 14wks old under normal chow diet, and 14wks old under HFD conditions.
Project description:Data-independent acquisition of mouse liver with four treatments: normal chow diet and healthy (1-5), normal chow diet and inoculated with Salmonella (6-11), high fat diet and healthy (12-16), and high fat diet and inoculated with Salmonella (17-21).