Project description:The physiological functions other than lipid metabolism of APOE may interfere with the research results of Apoe-knockout mice as atherosclerosis models. The elucidation of the molecular basis of the physiological functions of APOE other than lipid metabolism will help to make rational use of the Apoe-knockout mouse model. Therefore, our aim is to reveal the changes in aortic gene expression profile caused by Apoe-knockout. We used the second generation sequencing to detect the gene mRNA expression level in the aortic tissues of 5 C57BL/6J mice and 4 Apoe knockout mice. This will provide more clues for studying the physiological function of Apoe, and also remind researchers to pay special attention to the possible interference to the results when using Apoe-knockout mice as atherosclerosis models.
2024-10-31 | GSE215969 | GEO
Project description:Gut Microbiome in ApoE knockout mice
Project description:ApoE-/-mice were fed chow or Western diet for 12 weeks and NPRC expression was significantly increased in the aortic tissues of Western diet-fed mice. Systemic NPRC knockout mice were crossed with ApoE-/- mice to generate ApoE-/-NPRC-/- mice, and NPRC deletion resulted in a significant decrease in the size and instability of aortic atherosclerotic lesions in ApoE-/-NPRC-/- versus ApoE-/- mice.
Project description:Identification of novel pathways in the development of atherosclerosis. Here, we are looking at changes in gene expression that occur in the aorta with the development of atherosclerosis Analysis used RNA from thoracic aortas from chow fed ApoE knockout mice as control samples for comparison to the experimental samples from 8 week and 16 week ApoE knockout mice fed a western-type diet
Project description:We performed high-throughput RNA sequencing to characterize possible differences in the transcriptome of murine aortic Vascular Smooth Muscle cells from both 26 weeks-old ApoE knockout and ApoE/Neil3 double knockout mice fed a regular diet.
Project description:Collect tissues from control C57kBL/6 and the following genetically engineered mice-apoE knockout,apoA1 knockout, apoA1 transgene, apoB knockout, LDLR knockout.Both male and female mice fed chow or atherogenic diet will be used. Animals from each group were pooled into 2 pools, one containing 4 mice and the other containing 5 mice