Project description:Acute renal failure (ARF) has high morbidity and mortality. In animal ARF models, effective treatments must be administered before or shortly after the insult, limiting their clinical potential. We used microarrays to identify early biomarkers that distinguish ischemic from nephrotoxic ARF, or that detect both injury types. We compared rat kidney transcriptomes 2 and 8 hours after ischemia/reperfusion and after mercuric chloride. Quality control and statistical analyses were necessary to normalize inter-experimental groups, eliminate outliers, and exclude unaltered genes. Principal component analysis revealed distinct ischemic and nephrotoxic trajectories, and clear array groupings. Therefore, we used supervised analysis, t-tests and fold changes, to compile gene lists for each group, exclusive or non-exclusive, alone or in combination. Keywords: Disease classification/time course
Project description:Acute renal failure (ARF) has high morbidity and mortality. In animal ARF models, effective treatments must be administered before or shortly after the insult, limiting their clinical potential. We used microarrays to identify early biomarkers that distinguish ischemic from nephrotoxic ARF, or that detect both injury types. We compared rat kidney transcriptomes 2 and 8 hours after ischemia/reperfusion and after mercuric chloride. Quality control and statistical analyses were necessary to normalize inter-experimental groups, eliminate outliers, and exclude unaltered genes. Principal component analysis revealed distinct ischemic and nephrotoxic trajectories, and clear array groupings. Therefore, we used supervised analysis, t-tests and fold changes, to compile gene lists for each group, exclusive or non-exclusive, alone or in combination. We used two lots of microarrays (Lot 1, n = 24, Lot 2, n = 12), for a total of 36 microarrays. Five of them were duplicates, where two aliquots of RNA from the same rat were processed independently and hybridized to separate microarrays. Normal rats were used in both lots (n = 3 for each lot) for normalization.
Project description:RNA-seq analysis was performed in a TAL1-FKBP12 Jurkat cell line to analyze gene expression changes after dTAG-13 treatmentat at various time points (1h, 2h, 4h, 6h, 8h, 16h, 24h, 48h and 72h).
Project description:This experiment was designed to study the alteration in expression of mRNA is kidney following recovery from transient acute renal failure. The model used was a 52 min. bilateral renal artery clamping, followed by reperfusion, which resulted in a transient loss of renal function, followed by a functional recovery. All tissue in this study was harvested 35 days post-surgery, when renal function was restored, and renal structure largelyy normal. For controls, sham-operated animals were used. An N of 6 post-ischemia reperfusion animals were used with 6 sham-operated controls. For hybridization studies, RNA from one of six post-ischemic acute renal failure animals were compared with with RNA from kidney of six sham-operated control animals. Each ARF vs. sham-operated comparison was performed twice, alternating the cy3 and cy5 label between the two hybridizations for each pair. A second set of hybridizations was carried out using sham vs. sham hybridizations. This was done to get a quantitative analysis of the variation of the biological and microarry platform.
Project description:Aristolochic acid (AA) is a nephrotoxic carcinogen responsible for acute kidney injury, chronic renal failure, and associated urothelial cancers. This study aims to determine the genes in xenobiotic metabolism pathway regulated by AA and clarify the molecular mechanism underlying their action.
Project description:To study in vitro the epithelial cells and PrV interactions during infection, we followed PrV and PK15 cells transcriptome modifications during time-course infection (I) and mock-infection (MI). Four time points were studied: 1h, 2h, 4h and 8h post-I and MI. Four replicates of I and MI were analysed. Keywords: Pig, PrV, Pk15 cells, kinetics
Project description:This experiment was designed to study the alteration in expression of mRNA is kidney following recovery from transient acute renal failure. The model used was a 52 min. bilateral renal artery clamping, followed by reperfusion, which resulted in a transient loss of renal function, followed by a functional recovery. All tissue in this study was harvested 35 days post-surgery, when renal function was restored, and renal structure largelyy normal. For controls, sham-operated animals were used. An N of 6 post-ischemia reperfusion animals were used with 6 sham-operated controls. For hybridization studies, RNA from one of six post-ischemic acute renal failure animals were compared with with RNA from kidney of six sham-operated control animals. Each ARF vs. sham-operated comparison was performed twice, alternating the cy3 and cy5 label between the two hybridizations for each pair. A second set of hybridizations was carried out using sham vs. sham hybridizations. This was done to get a quantitative analysis of the variation of the biological and microarry platform. Keywords: parallel sample