Project description:To examine effects of environmental risk factors on pancreatic cancer development, we fed control Pdx1-Cre (WT) and Pdx1-Cre; Kras-flox (Kras) mice with a Western alcohol diet containing high-cholesterol and high-saturated fat diet and 3.5% alcohol for 5 months. To enhance alcohol-induced pancreatic injury, we added a low dose of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 1 μg/ml) to the diet. Mice were also given 7 hourly injections of cerulein (50 μg/kg) 4 times from the 1st to 4th month. To mimic tobacco smoking, we injected tobacco-derived carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK, 100 mg/kg) 4 times from the 1st to 4th month. Pancreas tissues were collected from Pdx1-Cre (n=3, normal) and Pdx1-Cre; Kras-flox (n=6, all) mice. Kras-flox (Kras) mice were also fed a regular chow (n=3, control) or 3.5% alcohol diet (N=3, alcohol) for 5 months. RNA-seq analysis revealed induction of cancer-associated genes by these risk factors in the pancreatic cancer tissues.
Project description:RNA-seq profiling was conducted on clinically-annotated human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cancer tissues We measured the transcriptome in 51 clinically-annotated human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cancer tissues
Project description:To identify and characterize differentially expressed tsRNA, we collected 3 primary tissues and 3 liver metastasis tissues in pancreatic cancer, and compared the tsRNA expression profiles between primary tissues and liver metastasis tissues in pancreatic cancer using tsRNA sequencing.
Project description:Quantitative proteome profiling of 72 samples of tumor and normal tissues from pancreatic cancer (PC) patients, tissues from patients with pancreatitis samples and PDX-derived cell lines.
Project description:Endothelial cells existed in the cancer tissue have unique biological characteristics that are different from those found in the noncancerous tissue of the same organ. In order to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in the unique biological phenotypes of endothelial cells in the cancer tissue, we compared gene expression profiles of endothelial cells isolated from pancreatic cancer tissues with those from chronic pancreatitis tissues.