Project description:Foreign body reaction is one of the most important limiting factors to the clinical translation of implantable bioelectronics. The experiment compares the process of foreign body reaction, following the implantation of a silicon device in a mouse peripheral nerve, to that of peripheral nerve injury, following nerve crushing. Both processes are also compared to a naïve peripheral nerve from an uninjured mouse. The endpoints are day 1, 4, 7, 14 and 28 days.
Project description:Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) was applied to identify and characterise macrophage subsets that responded to larval zebrafish muscle injury. The Tg(mpeg1:mCherry) transgenic zebrafish line was utilised to isolate mCherry-expressing macrophages by FACS. Following needle-stab muscle injury of a 4 days post fertilisation (dpf) larvae, the wound site was dissected out at 1, 2, and 3 days post injury (dpi) for macrophage isolation. Macrophages isolated from 4 dpf-uninjured larvae were also included. This analysis led to the identification of 8 discrete clusters of macrophages, one of which corresponded to uninjured macrophages. The 7 wound-present macrophage subsets highlighted greater macrophage heterogeneity than previously described in an in vivo skeletal muscle injury context.
Project description:The whole rat genome microarray expression profiling of carotid artery specimen was emplyed to identify the gene expression profile before and after balloon injury. In our study, the neointimal formation of carotid arteries was apparent at day 7 and markedly increased at day 21 after balloon injury. In order to investigate the underlying mechanism of neointimal formationin in injured carotid arteries, all genes involved in signaling pathways whose expression was altered 2-fold in injured carotid arteries at day 7 and day 21 as compared to uninjured arteries were filtered out. Expression of four genes (TLR4, IRAK1, IM-NM-:BM-NM-1, IL-1M-NM-2) from TLR signaling pathway was quantified in the same RNA samples by quantitative real-time PCR, conforming that TLR signaling pathway participated in neointimal formation of carotid arteries after balloon injury. Balloon injury-induced gene expression in wistar rat was measured at day 7 and day 21 after balloon injury as compared with uninjured arteries. Two independent experiments were performed at each time (uninjured, day 7 or day 21) using different wistar rats for each experiment.
Project description:This data was used as an example to illustrate a computational method for assessing statistical significance in microarray experiments Contributed by 'The Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Collaborative Research Program.' Keywords: Two group comparison Genomic response one day post traumatic injury was compared between patients having early or late respiratory recovery
Project description:To explore the impact of targeting IL-10 signaling, tibialis anterior (TA) VML injuries were created and then treated in Sprague Dawley rats using an autologous minced muscle regenerative medicine repair strategy in combination with delayed exogenous IL-10 delivery. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq from rat muscles (n=4 for IL-10 treatment, n=4 for PBS control , and n=4 for uninjured control) at day 14 post injury
Project description:This experiment sought to understand the transcriptomic changes that occur in the larval zebrafish heart following injury. 600 hearts were laser injured at 3 days post fertilisation, extracted 48 hours later and pooled into three groups of 200. RNA was extracted from the whole heart(s) and sent for sequencing along with 3 groups of 200 uninjured hearts, extracted and processed identically. RNA sequencing, quality control and alignment was performed by the commercial company GENEWIZ.
Project description:The study was aimed at comparing the transcriptome of MG cells of the retina with the progenitors derived from them after an injury. This information will help in the identification of factors that are responsible for the retinal regeneration. Muller glia were isolated by fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) using uninjured retinas from transgenice zebrafish (gfap:gfp) where green florescent protein (GFP) is under the control of the glial fibrillary acidic protein (gfap) promoter. MG-derived retinal progenitors were isolated by FACS at 4 days post retinal injury from 1016 tuba1a:gfp transgenic fish where GFP is driven by the tuba1a promoter which is specifically activated in these progenitors. Total RNA was isolated from these cell populations and subjected to microarray analysis to compare their transcriptomes. Samples were prepared in duplicate.
Project description:Environmental factors such as temperature can modulate animal’s lifespan. However, the underlying mechanisms remain largely undefined. Through proteomic analysis of C. elegans at different time points (young adult, middle age, and old age) and under two temperature conditions (20°C and 25°C), we found that temperature affects C. elegans lifespan largely by modulating the proteostasis. Surprisingly, although animals live shorter at the higher temperature, we found that worms cultured at 25°C for one day at early adulthood promotes the protein homeostasis by decreasing the synthesis and increasing the degradation, suggesting the beneficial effects. Consistent with the finding, animals shifting from 20°C to 25°C for 24 hours between the larval L4 to adult Day 3 stages indeed live longer and are more resistant to stresses. Furthermore, we found that the one-day thermal induced lifespan extension is mediated by the FOXO transcriptional factor DAF-16. These results reveal an unexpected and complicated mechanism underlying the temperature effects on aging, which could potentially aid to develop strategies for treating aging related diseases.