Project description:To determine hypoxia mediated changes in whole blood, normal C57Bl/10 mice were gradually exposed to a chronic hypoxic environment, equivalent to an altitude of 6500m, for 2 weeks in vivo. Control, age-matched mice were maintained under normoxic, normobaric conditions by exposing them to ambient air in Philadelphia (c. 50 mts above sea level).
Project description:High altitude environments are characterized by the unique and unavoidable stress of chronic hypoxia. While much is known about gene expression responses to acute or in vitro hypoxia, less is known about the gene expression profiles of animals exposed to systemic chronic hypoxia, such as that experienced at high elevations. Here we simulated the hypoxic environment of two high altitude elevations,and a third chamber recieved ambient Reno air. Mice were housed in the hypoxic chambers for 32 days. We used microarrays to characterize the differential gene expression in the livers of mice housed in hypoxic environment of 4500 m versus 3000 and 1400 m. We used this data to draw hypotheses related to novel physiological responses to chronic systemic hypoxia Experiment Overall Design: Mice were housed one of three chambers; the first received ambient Reno air (1400 m) and the other two received air mixed with nitrogen such that one chamber simulated the hypoxic environment of 3000 m and the third chamber simulated hypoxic environment of 4500 m. Twelve mice were housed in each chamber for 32 days. Liver were extracted, and RNA from livers of 4 mice were pooled such that each treatment was represented by 3 pooled samples. Eight of the nine arrays were used for data analysis; one array was excluded as several Affymetrix quality control metrics indicated data quality that was not reliable.
Project description:High altitude environments are characterized by the unique and unavoidable stress of chronic hypoxia. While much is known about gene expression responses to acute or in vitro hypoxia, less is known about the gene expression profiles of animals exposed to systemic chronic hypoxia, such as that experienced at high elevations. Here we simulated the hypoxic environment of two high altitude elevations,and a third chamber recieved ambient Reno air. Mice were housed in the hypoxic chambers for 32 days. We used microarrays to characterize the differential gene expression in the livers of mice housed in hypoxic environment of 4500 m versus 3000 and 1400 m. We used this data to draw hypotheses related to novel physiological responses to chronic systemic hypoxia
2009-04-30 | GSE15891 | GEO
Project description:Characteristics of dynamic changes of intestinal flora in rats under high altitude and low oxygen environment
Project description:In this study, we employed an integrated proteomic and metabolomic approach to systematically analyze the proteome and metabolome profiles of SHRs following prolonged exposure to a high-altitude hypoxic environment. Bioinformatics and enrichment analysis revealed that proteins with significant differential expression were predominantly involved in pathways such as oxidative phosphorylation, thermogenesis, TCA cycle, and carbon metabolism. Further analysis indicated that alterations in key metabolites, including thiamine, S-adenosylhomocysteine, pantothenic acid, fumaric acid, and homoserine, interact with differentially expressed proteins, collectively contributing to the modulation of blood pressure regulation in SHRs under hypoxic conditions. This research provides new molecular insights into understanding the impact of high-altitude hypoxia on the blood pressure regulatory mechanisms in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Project description:High altitude exposes humans to hypobaric and hypoxic conditions, which induce various physiological and molecular changes. Recent evidence, mostly from animal models, points towards interaction between circadian rhythms and the hypoxic response, however their human relevance is largely unknown. To examine the interaction between elevated altitude-low oxygen and daily rhythms, we analyzed the effect of different high altitudes in conjunction with day-time on human whole blood transcriptome. We found that high altitude vastly affects the blood transcriptome and unexpectedly, does not necessarily follow a monotonic response to altitude elevation. We observed daily variance in gene expression, which was largely dependent on altitude. Moreover, using digital cytometry approach we estimated the relative changes in abundance of different cell types and found the several immune cell types were responding in a time- and altitude-dependent manner. Taken together, our data shed new light on the transcriptional response to high altitude and its interaction with daily rhythms.
2022-03-03 | GSE196728 | GEO
Project description:High-Altitude Hypoxia Induced the Changes of Gut Microbiota
| PRJNA835243 | ENA
Project description:Impact of High altitude environment of Human oral and gut microbiota