Project description:We purposed to examine the effect of PGF receptor FP in development of ; bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice. We performed gene ; expression analysis in the lung of WT and FP-KO mice on Days 0, 7 and ; 14. We found out that fibrosis-related genes such as various isoforms ; of collagen, which were induced on Day 7 and continued to increase or ; remained unchanged on Day 14, were induced to less extent in FP-KO ; mice. In contrast, expression of inflammation-related genes peaked on ; Day 7 similarly in WT and FP-KO mice. These results suggest that FP ; functions in fibrosis-phase, not in peak inflammation phase, and ; facilitates fibrogenesis by enhancing expression of fibrosis-related ; genes. Experiment Overall Design: RNA was prepared from the lung of WT and FP-KO mice on Day 0, 7 and 14 Experiment Overall Design: (n=4-5 for each group at each time point) after bleomycin instillation, Experiment Overall Design: and used for hybridization with Affymetrics mouse 430 2.0 microarrays. Experiment Overall Design: Time-dependent changes in expression of genes in FP-KO mice were Experiment Overall Design: compared with those in WT mice.
Project description:We purposed to examine the effect of PGF receptor FP in development of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice. We performed gene expression analysis in the lung of WT and FP-KO mice on Days 0, 7 and 14. We found out that fibrosis-related genes such as various isoforms of collagen, which were induced on Day 7 and continued to increase or remained unchanged on Day 14, were induced to less extent in FP-KO mice. In contrast, expression of inflammation-related genes peaked on Day 7 similarly in WT and FP-KO mice. These results suggest that FP functions in fibrosis-phase, not in peak inflammation phase, and facilitates fibrogenesis by enhancing expression of fibrosis-related genes.
Project description:Purpose: The goalsof this study was to compare the transcriptome profiling of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) of animals injected intrathecally with IL4-10 FP, the combination of IL4+IL10 or vehicle, one week after induction of persistent inflammatory pain. Methods: Mice received an intraplantar injection of carrageenan and one week developing inflammatory pain were intrathecally injected with IL4-10 FP, IL4+IL10 or PBS. DRGs were isolated and RNA libraries were prepared with the poly A selection method followed by multiplexing and sequencing on the Illumina NextSeq500® platform in a 1 × 75bp single-read and 350 million reads per lane (Utrecht Sequencing Facility) Results: In vivo IL4-10 FP induces a differential transcriptome than the combination of cytokines in mice with persistent inflammatory pain. Conclusions: The superior analgesic effect observed in mice treated with IL4-10 FP compared to mice injected with the naïve cytokines is derived from an induction of a different transcriptome on the lumbar DRGs.