Project description:RON WT and RON KO at 5, 6, 7 week virgin mammary glands In the study, we demonstrated that RON regulates mammary gland branching morphogenesis in pubertal development associated with changes in gene expression. Keywords: Pubertal mammary glands
Project description:RON WT and RON KO at 5, 6, 7 week virgin mammary glands In the study, we demonstrated that RON regulates mammary gland branching morphogenesis in pubertal development associated with changes in gene expression. Keywords: Pubertal mammary glands In the study, we hybridized RNA from 5, 6, 7 week old virgin female RON WT and KO mammary glands to Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Array
Project description:Many components of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway also play critical roles in mammary tumor development. To study the role of Apc in mammary tumorigensis, we introduced conditional Apc mutations specifically into two different mammary epithelial populations using K14-Cre (progenitor) and WAP-cre (lactaing luminal) transgenic mice. Only the K14-cre mediated Apc heterozygosity developed mammary adenocarcinomas demonstrating histological and molecular heterogeneity, suggesting the progenitor cell origin of these tumors. These tumors harbored truncation mutation in a very defined region in the remaining wild-type allele of Apc that would retain some down-regulating activity of β-catenin signaling. Our results suggest that not only the epithelial origin but also a certain Apc mutations are selected to achieve a specific level of β-catenin signaling optimal for mammary tumor development. Experiment Overall Design: We have compared 3 mammary tumors from K14-cre; ApcCKO/+ mice with 3 control mammary glands.
Project description:Overexpression of ECD in mammary gland promotes mammary tumorigenesis. To determine the plausible mechanism of how ECD contributes the oncogenesis, we performed RNAseq analysis of three independent control mice mammary glands (6 months old) and four independent ECD transgenic mammary tumors. Out of these four tumors, T1a and T1b were adenosquamous carcinoma type, T3 was Spindle cell carcinoma type and T4 was papillary carcinoma. RNA was isolated from the respective samples and RNAseq was performed.
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding, endogenous RNAs involved in many human diseases including breast cancer. miRNA expression profiling of human breast cancers has identified miRNAs related to the clinical diversity of the disease and potentially provides novel diagnostic and prognostic tools for breast cancer therapy. In order to further understand the roles of miRNAs in association with oncogenic drivers and in specifying sub-types of breast cancer, we performed miRNAexpression profiling on mammary tumors from eight well-characterized genetically -engineered Mouse (GEM) models of human breast cancer including MMTV–H-Ras, -Her2/neu, -c-Myc, -PymT, –Wnt1 and C3(1)/SV40 T/t-antigen transgenic mice, BRCA1fl/fl;p53+/-;MMTV-cre and the p53fl/fl ;MMTV-cre transplant model. miRNA expression data for 41 mouse primary mammary tumors and 5 mouse normal mammary glands
Project description:Molecular profiling was used to classify mammary tumors that develop in MTB-IGFIR transgenic mice. It was determined that the primary mammary tumors (PMT), which develop due to elevated expression of the type I insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-IR) in mammary epithelial cells, most closely resemble murine tumors with basal-like or mixed gene expression profiles and with human basal-like breast cancers. Downregulation of IGF-IR transgene in MTB-IGFIR tumor-bearing mice leads to the regression of most of the tumors followed by tumor re-appearance in some of the mice. These tumors that re-appear following IGF-IR transgene downregulation do not express the IGF-IR transgene and cluster with murine mammary tumors that express a mesenchymal gene expression profile and with human claudin-low breast cancers. Therefore, IGF-IR overexpression in murine mammary epithelial cells induces mammary tumors with primarily basal-like characteristics while tumors that develop following IGF-IR downregulation express a gene signature that most closely resembles human claudin-low breast tumors. Three conditions: 8 wild type (WT) mammary glands, 11 primary mammary tumor (PMT) samples, 9 recurrent spindle tumor (RST) samples, each sample was hybridized against a universal mouse reference RNA
Project description:Analysis of hyperglycemia-induced tumor progression at gene expression level. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that hyperglycemia contributes to tumor growth and metastasis. Results provide important information of the response of hyperglycemia, such as specific NRG1 pathways, HER2-3 pathways, NF-kB pathways and anti-apoptotic related genes, up- or down-regulated. Total RNA obtained from tumor tissues of 10-week-old PyMT/PANIC and PyMT mice as well as mammary glands of 10-week-old PANIC-ATTAC and WT mice.
Project description:The Th-inducing POK (Th-POK, also known as cKrox or ZBTB7B) transcription factor is a key regulator of lineage commitment of immature T cell precursors. It is yet unclear the physiological functions of Th-POK besides helper T cell differentiation. We found that Th-POK is restrictedly expressed in the luminal epithelial cells in the mammary glands. Th-POK is not required for mammary gland development in puberty and alveologenesis in pregnancy. Th-POK-deficient mice are defective in secretory activation upon parturition with large cellular lipid droplets retained within alveolar epithelial cells. We compared microarray gene expression in mammary glands of lactating wild-type or Th-POK-deficient mice. We show that Th-POK directly regulates expression of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) and insulin-induced Akt-mTOR-SREBP signaling. Th-POK deficiency compromises IRS-1 expression and Akt-mTOR-SREBP signaling in the mammary glands. Thus, Th-POK function as an important regulator of insulin signaling in mammary gland lactation.