Project description:Genome wide transcriptional comparison of B. thetaiotaomicron wild type vs. an isogenic mutant (BT2923::pGERM). Cecal populations of wt or BT2923::pGERM monoassociated 10d with B6 or NMRI gnotobiotic mice fed a standard-chow polysaccharide rich (PR) diet were profiled. Keywords: wild type versus knockout, in vivo
Project description:Genome wide trascriptional comparison of B. thetaiotaomicron wild-type vs. an isogenic mutant (BT3172::pGERM). Cecal populations of wt or BT3172::pGERM monoassociated 10d with NMRI gnotobiotic mice fed a standard-chow polysaccharide rich (PR) diet (n=5 samples/group) were profiled. Keywords: Wild-type versus Knockout, in vivo
Project description:Transcriptomic profiles of wild type and TSP1 knockout mice that were fed control (normal) diet or CDAHFD (choline deficient amino acid defiend high fat diet) chow for 12 weeks to model Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) disease in humans.
Project description:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common type of chronic liver disease. NAFLD is associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular diseases, and characterized by excessive accumulation of triglycerides in the form of lipid droplets. Liver injury in NAFLD through inflammation and oxidative stress ultimately leads to development of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and liver cancer. Recently it has been reported that catalase, a major peroxisomal antioxidant, plays a protective role in high-fat diet-induced liver injury. In this study, we further investigated the role of catalase in development of liver disease using transcriptome analysis. Catalase knockout and wild type mice were fed either normal chow or high-fat diet and the gene expression profiles in the liver were compared.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of WAT comparing wild-type control with Ahnak Knockout mice fed regular chow and high fat diet We obtained white adipose tissue from mice fed regular chow and high fat diet for Affymetrix microarrays
Project description:Abcg8 knockout mice, fed chow, are infertile. These mice also are susceptible to absorption and retention of xenosterols contained in the diet. Ezetimibe, a blocker of dieary sterol entry, can reverse the fertility in Abcg8 knockout mice. In order to identify if the xenosterols resulted in disruption of a specific set of genes in the testes, we compared wild-type testes, Abcg8 knockout testes, or testes from Abcg8 knockout mice fed chow supplemented with 0.005% ezetimibe. To identify genes of interest, we reasoned that any causative gene expression changes seen in Abcg8 knockout mice fed chow, resulting in xenosterol exposure and accumulation, leading to infertilty, would be reveresed back to a pattern seen in the wild-type mice, when Abcg8 knockout mice are raised on chow containing ezetimibe (which prevents xenosterol absorption in the intestine). The target of this drug, Npc1l1, is not expressed in the testes. Testes from wild-type mice, Abcg8 knockout mice, and Abcg8 knockout mice fed chow supplemented with ezetimibe were analyzed.
Project description:Liver samples of mice harboring liver-specific deletion of Lats2 (Lats2-CKO) were compared to WT mice. This effect was tested along with the effect of diet - high cholesterol diet (Paigen-PD) vs. normal chow (ND).
Project description:Abcg8 knockout mice, fed chow, are infertile. These mice also are susceptible to absorption and retention of xenosterols contained in the diet. Ezetimibe, a blocker of dieary sterol entry, can reverse the fertility in Abcg8 knockout mice. In order to identify if the xenosterols resulted in disruption of a specific set of genes in the testes, we compared wild-type testes, Abcg8 knockout testes, or testes from Abcg8 knockout mice fed chow supplemented with 0.005% ezetimibe. To identify genes of interest, we reasoned that any causative gene expression changes seen in Abcg8 knockout mice fed chow, resulting in xenosterol exposure and accumulation, leading to infertilty, would be reveresed back to a pattern seen in the wild-type mice, when Abcg8 knockout mice are raised on chow containing ezetimibe (which prevents xenosterol absorption in the intestine). The target of this drug, Npc1l1, is not expressed in the testes.
Project description:LASS2 is expressed mostly in human liver. We explored roles of LASS2 in pathogenesis of hepatic steatosis. Hepatocyte-specific LASS2 knockout (LASS2-/-) mice were generated using Cre-LoxP system. LASS2-/- and wild-type (WT) mice were fed with chow or high-fat diet (HFD). We performed global gene expression analysis for the mice livers in accordance with standard Affymetrix protocols to explore signaling pathways involved by LASS2 deficiency.