Project description:Tumorpsheres and mammospheres were used to propagate mouse breast tumor-initiating cells and their normal stem/progenitor counterparts, respectively. Mammospheres induced to differentiate were used to model the more differentiated cells of the mouse mammary gland. We used microarrays to find differentrially expressed genes between tumorspheres, mammospheres, and mammospheres induced to differentiate
Project description:Comparison of liver transcriptome between RC-fed mice, HFD-fed mice with vehicle or nobiletin treatment provides the possibility to identify the effects of nobiletin on gene expression altered by HFD relative to RC. We used Illumina microarrays to analyze liver transcriptome of different treatment groups following exposure to RC, HFD.Veh (denoted as the HFD group) and HFD.NOB (denoted as the NOB group).
Project description:Tumorpsheres and mammospheres were used to propagate mouse breast tumor-initiating cells and their normal stem/progenitor counterparts, respectively. Mammospheres induced to differentiate were used to model the more differentiated cells of the mouse mammary gland. We used microarrays to find differentrially expressed genes between tumorspheres, mammospheres, and mammospheres induced to differentiate Primary cells were isolate from either mouse mammary glands (FVB/N) or mouse mammary tumors and placed in stem cell media (MMTV-Neu [N2O2]. Spheres were passaged every 7 days for 3-5 passages and harvested for RNA isolation
Project description:Mammary gland cells were isolated from 5-8 week old FVB mice and allowed to proliferate as undifferentiated mammospheres in the presence of growth factors (bFGF and EGF). Comparison of the gene expression profiles of undifferentiated mammospheres vs. mammospheres that were allowed to differentiate for 6 days by the removal of growth factors will help to identify genes that are implicated in the maintenance of the mammary gland stem cell compartment. Keywords: other
Project description:Comparison of liver transcriptome between RC-fed mice, HFD-fed mice with vehicle or nobiletin treatment provides the possibility to identify the effects of nobiletin on gene expression altered by HFD relative to RC. We used Illumina microarrays to analyze liver transcriptome of different treatment groups following exposure to RC, HFD.Veh (denoted as the HFD group) and HFD.NOB (denoted as the NOB group). The microarray experiment was performed to investigate effects of HFD and NOB on mouse liver transcriptome. Liver tissues were collected at ZT2 and ZT14 (corresponding to 2 hours after light on and light off, respectively). The pooled RNA samples, 4 mice each group, were used for the microarray.
Project description:Mammary gland cells were isolated from 5-8 week old FVB mice and allowed to proliferate as undifferentiated mammospheres in the presence of growth factors (bFGF and EGF). Comparison of the gene expression profiles of undifferentiated mammospheres vs. mammospheres that were allowed to differentiate for 6 days by the removal of growth factors will help to identify genes that are implicated in the maintenance of the mammary gland stem cell compartment. Experiment Overall Design: this experiment include 2 samples and 12 replicates
Project description:The combined activation of Wnt/ß-catenin and MET/HGF is required for mammary cancer stem cell (MaCSC) maintenance. We generated mammospheres derived from tumors of mice harboring Wnt/Met signaling mutations on which we performed microarray analysis to evaluate gene expression signatures controlled by Wnt and MET pathways. We used the gene expression profiles to dissect the role and the functions of these pathways in MaCSCs.