Project description:T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive hematologic tumor, which arises from the malignant transformation of T-cell progenitors. Here we want to understand the influence of Cannabis extracts on T-ALL cells (Molt-4)
Project description:Population-based studies show cannabis use doubles the risk of developing schizophrenia especially when use occurs in early adolescence (prior to age 15). However, the cause-and-effect mechanisms are largely unknown. To investigate the effect of cannabis on brain maturation and relation to the development of psychosis-like behaviours in adulthood, we treated young adolescent mice with vehicle or cannabis extract once a day for 2 weeks between postnatal days 14 and 28, and then collected hippocampal tissue for microarray analysis 12 weeks later. We identify a total of 78 differentially expressed genes (25 upregulated and 53 downregulated; p<0.05, fold change ± 1.2) and validate increases in dopamine D2 receptor (Drd2) and fatty acid amide hydrolase (Faah). Changes in Faah expression were limited to the hippocampus however Drd2 also increased in striatum but not prefrontal cortex or amygdala. When tested in adulthood with a behavioural panel relevant to schizophrenia, cannabis-treated mice displayed lower anxiety in the elevated zero-maze, decreased social preference, increased social novelty preference, mild cognitive impairments in a spatial version of the novel object recognition task and absence of latent inhibition when compared to vehicle controls. Adolescent treatment with cannabis extract thus lead to long-lasting changes in gene expression within the hippocampus which together result in behavioural deficits consistent with the negative and positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
Project description:Analysis of MOLT-4 cells at various time points up to 6 hours following treatment with mouse anti-CD47 antibody (MABL) and goat anti-mouse IgG (GAM) as the crosslinker of MABL. MABL induces apoptosis in CD47-positive MOLT-4 cells. Cell death signals via CD47 ligation were analyzed by using Affymetrix Human Genome U133A microarray.
Project description:Analysis of MOLT-4 cells at various time points up to 6 hours following treatment with mouse anti-CD47 antibody (MABL) and goat anti-mouse IgG (GAM) as the crosslinker of MABL. MABL induces apoptosis in CD47-positive MOLT-4 cells. Cell death signals via CD47 ligation were analyzed by using Affymetrix Human Genome U133A microarray. MOLT-4 cell line was obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and grown in RPMI1640 medium (SIGMA) with 10% FBS(JBS). It was maintained at 37 degree C and 5% CO2. Cells were washed with PBS(-) followed by treatment with 10 ug/mL MABL (anti-CD47 antibody) for 0, 0.5, 1, 3 and 6 h. Total RNA was isolated and converted to cDNA using a Superscript Double Stranded cDNA synthesis kit (Invitrogen). Fragmented cDNA was hybridized to Affymetrix Human Genome U133A array and gene expression signals were analyzed. Probes showing >2 or <0.5 fold-change for both replicates compared with the control (geometric mean of 0h replicate signals) were selected at any time.
Project description:In this study, we evaluated the common proteomic profile, as well as, the exclusively deregulated proteins in ON cells from healthy controls cannabis users (HC/c), SCZ patients non-cannabis users (SCZ/nc) and SCZ patients cannabis users (SCZ/c) as compared to healthy controls non-cannabis users (HC/nc). Moreover, we investigated quantitative and functional differences between HC/c and SCZ, and we characterized the distinct effect of cannabis in SCZ comparing SCZ/nc and SCZ/c.
Project description:Two human acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines (Molt-4 and CCRF-CEM) were treated with direct (A-769662) and indirect (AICAR) AMPK activators. Molt-4 and CCRF-CEM cells were obtained from ATCC (CRL-1582 and CCL-119). Control samples were used for the analysis of metabolic differences between cell lines. Therefore the data was analyzed in combination with, metabolomic data, and the genome-scale reconstruction of human metabolism. For experiments cells were grown in serum-free medium containing DMSO (0.67%) at a cell concentration of 5 x 105 cells/mL.
Project description:To investigate the effects of transgenic lines L6 and L7 tomato fruits on total expression profile of MCF-7 breast cancer cells, we treated MCF-7 cells with 1 ug/ml of tomato fruit extract for 24 hours and compare it with wild type tomato fruit extract Objectives for this study included the identification of genes that were up or down-regulated at the transcriptional level in MCF-7 cells treated with transgenic lines L6 and L7 tomatofruit extract and compare it to wild type tomato fruit extract.
Project description:Even if a large amount of high-throughput functional genomic data exists, most researchers feature a strong background in molecular biology but lack advanced bioinformatics skills. In this work, publicly available gene expression datasets have been analyzed giving rise to a total of 40,224 gene expression profiles within different Cannabis tissues/developmental stages. The resource here proposed will provide researchers with a starting point for future investigations of Cannabis sativa.