Project description:Pregnancy-associated hypertensive (PAH) mice were maintained by mating females carrying the human angiotensinogen (hAGT) gene with males expressing the human renin (hRN) gene, as previously described (Takimoto E., et al., Science, 1996). Angiotensin II (AngII) has critical roles in regulation of blood pressure. In late pregnancy of PAH mice, increased AngII causes acute and severe hypertension with proteinuria. Furthermore, PAH mice show cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis and apoptosis. It is known that AngII downregulates mRNA of alpha 1a-adrenergic receptor (Adra1a) in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes (Li H.T., et al., Circ. Res., 1997). Interestingly, we found that Adra1a knock out PAH (PAH/aKO) mice display more severe phenotype of cardiac hypertrophy in comparison to PAH mice. In this study, to understand the molecular basis of cardiac hypertrophy via regulation of Adra1a expression with AngII in PAH mice, we performed a comprehensive analysis of gene expression changes in cardiac remodeling of PAH and PAH/aKO mice using the next-generation RNA sequencing (RNA-seq).
Project description:PAH was induced by 60mg/kg MCT and an aorto-caval shunt. At different timepoints of PAH progression (day 14, 21 and 28 after MCT-injection), the left lung with PAH was hemodynamically unloading by unilateral orthotopic transplatation into a syngeneic, healthy recipient. All day 14 and 7/10 day 21 transplanted lungs showed reversal of PAH after LTx. All day 28 and 3/10 day 21 transplanted lungs showed PAH progression after LTx. Lung tissue of Reversible and Irreversible PAH and normal controls, acquired at LTx, was compared using RNA-seq.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of squamous cell carcinoma of oral tongue, comparing p53 NS+ and p53 NS- tumors. Goal was to determine differentially expressed genes between them based on global gene expression.