Project description:Prior to the onset of autoimmune destruction, type 1 diabetic patients and an animal model thereof, the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse, show morphological and functional abnormalities in target organs, which may act as inciting events for leukocyte infiltration. To better understand these abnormalities, but without the complications associated with inflammatory infiltrates, we examined genes expressed in autoimmune target tissues (pancreas, submandibular glands, and lacrimal glands) of NOD/scid mice and of autoimmune-resistant C57BL6/scid mice. Keywords: tissue expression, disease prone versus resistant strain comparison
Project description:Prior to the onset of autoimmune destruction, type 1 diabetic patients and an animal model thereof, the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse, show morphological and functional abnormalities in target organs, which may act as inciting events for leukocyte infiltration. To better understand these abnormalities, but without the complications associated with inflammatory infiltrates, we examined genes expressed in autoimmune target tissues (pancreas, submandibular glands, and lacrimal glands) of NOD/scid mice and of autoimmune-resistant C57BL6/scid mice. Experiment Overall Design: Pancreata (6 weeks old mice), submandibular (9 and 15 weeks), and lacrimal glands (15 weeks) from individual NOD-scid and B6-scid mice were isolated for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Single cell RNA sequencing was performed on adult NOD-SCID mice to identify the various cell types in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans
Project description:Eight NOD-SCID mice of 6-8 weeks old were sacrificed, and spleen cells harvested. Z cells were isolated using a red fluorescent TMR-Zfra peptide in cell sorting (Oncotarget. 2015 Feb 28;6(6):3737-51). Two cell populations were isolated, which are Z(-) and Z(+) cells, or designated as ZM for negative cells and ZP for positive cells. Mouse OneArray chips (Phalanx Biotech, Inc) were used for gene expression profiling. The goal of this research is to determine the specific gene expression profile in newly isolated spleen Z cells.
Project description:0.5 x10^6 MDA-MB-231 cells, infected with lentivirus encoding either a control shRNA (shLacZ) or a shRNA targeting human Memo1, were injected into the second mammary fatpad of 6-8 week old female NOD/SCID mice and collected 4 weeks after injection.
Project description:Introduction. Glucocorticoids are critical drugs used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and response to glucocorticoids is highly predictive of outcome. Here we report a study evaluating the NOD/SCID xenograft mouse model to investigate glucocorticoid-induced gene expression. Methods. NOD/SCID mice were inoculated with ALL-3, a glucocorticoid-sensitive xenograft, and when highly engrafted were randomised to either dexamethasone 15mg/kg or vehicle control IP. Cells were harvested at 0, 8, 24 or 48 hours thereafter, RNA was extracted and hybridised onto Illumina WG-6_V3 chips. Results. The 8 hour dexamethasone-treated timepoint had the highest number of significantly differentially expressed genes with minimal changes seen across the time-matched controls. Replicate analysis revealed that using data from 3 replicates instead of 4 resulted in excellent recovery scores of >0.9 at timepoints with high signal. When assessed at the level of pathways, gene expression changes in the 8 hour xenograft samples were similar to patients treated with glucocorticoids. Conclusions. The NOD/SCID xenograft mouse model provides a reproducible experimental model system in which to investigate clinically-relevant mechanisms of in vivo glucocorticoid-induced gene regulation in ALL; the 8 hour timepoint provides the highest number of significantly differentially expressed genes; time-matched controls are redundant and excellent recovery scores can be obtained with 3 replicates.
Project description:Introduction. Glucocorticoids are critical drugs used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and response to glucocorticoids is highly predictive of outcome. Here we report a study evaluating the NOD/SCID xenograft mouse model to investigate glucocorticoid-induced gene expression. Methods. NOD/SCID mice were inoculated with ALL-3, a glucocorticoid-sensitive xenograft, and when highly engrafted were randomised to either dexamethasone 15mg/kg or vehicle control IP. Cells were harvested at 0, 8, 24 or 48 hours thereafter, RNA was extracted and hybridised onto Illumina WG-6_V3 chips. Results. The 8 hour dexamethasone-treated timepoint had the highest number of significantly differentially expressed genes with minimal changes seen across the time-matched controls. Replicate analysis revealed that using data from 3 replicates instead of 4 resulted in excellent recovery scores of >0.9 at timepoints with high signal. When assessed at the level of pathways, gene expression changes in the 8 hour xenograft samples were similar to patients treated with glucocorticoids. Conclusions. The NOD/SCID xenograft mouse model provides a reproducible experimental model system in which to investigate clinically-relevant mechanisms of in vivo glucocorticoid-induced gene regulation in ALL; the 8 hour timepoint provides the highest number of significantly differentially expressed genes; time-matched controls are redundant and excellent recovery scores can be obtained with 3 replicates. At 0, 8, 24 or 48 hours, NOD/SCID xenograft mice were treated with vehicle control, or dexamethasone. We used 4 biological replicates per time point (3 at the 48hour time point), each of which went onto an Illumina HumanWG-6_V3_0_R1_11282955_A microarray. Samples from each of the 7 groups were divided across a total of 5 microarray slides