Project description:Crossing of hDMD mice that contain the full-length 2.3 Mb hDMD gene were crossed with dystrophin-deficient mdx mice and dystrophin and utrophin double-deficient mdx x utrn-/- mice resulted in a full rescue of the dystrophic features of these mice, as concluded from histological analysis. Analysis on Affymetrix gene chips demonstrated that also expression profiles of the dystrophic mice were normalized by crossing with transgenic hDMD mice. This confirms the full functionality of the hDMD transgene in mice. Keywords: disease state analysis
Project description:Crossing of hDMD mice that contain the full-length 2.3 Mb hDMD gene were crossed with dystrophin-deficient mdx mice and dystrophin and utrophin double-deficient mdx x utrn-/- mice resulted in a full rescue of the dystrophic features of these mice, as concluded from histological analysis. Analysis on Affymetrix gene chips demonstrated that also expression profiles of the dystrophic mice were normalized by crossing with transgenic hDMD mice. This confirms the full functionality of the hDMD transgene in mice. Experiment Overall Design: RNA from gastrocnemius muscle from individual mice was hybridized to Affymetrix U74Av2
Project description:DMD is a genetic disease, which leads to muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy. The latter remains incurable, being the main cause of death in DMD, therefore new therapeutic strategies are being sought to provide effective treatment. One of them considers upregulation of utrophin, a protein structurally and functionally homologous to dystrophin. In this study proteomic analysis of dystrophin-deficient and both dystrophin- and utrophin-deficient hiPSC-CM indicated on considerable differences in terms of contraction-related mechanisms. We thus investigated the role of utrophin in the maintenance of electrophysiological properties of DMD hiPSC-CM using the cells with additional utrophin deficiency and with utrophin upregulation. Obtained results indicated on disturbance of calcium handling in DMD hiPSC-CM, even more pronounced in DMD/UTRN KO hiPSC-CM and increased values of AHP in DMD hiPSC-CM. Utrophin upregulation improved both calcium oscillations and AHP values. Our findings highlight utrophin as important in the maintenance of the electrophysiological properties of DMD hiPSC-CM.
Project description:Comparison by expression profiling of tissue from dKO (utrophin/dystrophin-deficient) and MDX mice at 8 weeks of age. Independent triplicate analyses/strain were done for extraocular, hindlimb, and cardiac muscle.
Project description:Comparison by expression profiling of tissue from dKO (utrophin/dystrophin-deficient) and MDX mice at 8 weeks of age. Independent triplicate analyses/strain were done for extraocular, hindlimb, and cardiac muscle. Keywords = microarray Keywords = extraocular Keywords: parallel sample
Project description:The objective of this study was to test the novel non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) finerenone as a monotherapy in a preclinical Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) model. Microarray was used to detail gene expression differences in ventricular heart tissue from finerenone-treated dystrophin-deficient, utrophin-haploinsufficient Het (utrn+/−; mdx) mice versus untreated Het mice.
Project description:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severely debilitating and incurable neuromuscular disease. Its conspicuous feature is the absence of dystrophin in myofibers and therefore most therapeutic approaches focus on some form of its re-expression there. However, increasing body of evidence points at an early developmental onset of DMD and severe abnormalities were uncovered in dystrophic muscle stem cells. In this study, we explore gene expression changes in primary myoblasts from mice lacking expression of the full length dystrophin transcript. Total RNA extracted from primary myoblasts isolated from gastrocnemii of 8 week old male Dmd-mdx (MDX - lacking the full length dystrophin transcript), Dmd-mdx-βgeo (BGEO - lacking all dystrophin expression) and control mice (WT) were subjected to RNA sequencing following ribodepletion, and analysed for the differential expression of genes between groups and the enrichment of gene ontology categories or pathways.
Project description:This study applies targeted Cas9-based gene insertion strategies for the correction of full-length dystrophin in a pre-clinical humanized mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Following intramuscular or intravenous delivery, full-length dystrophin is restored in skeletal and cardiac muscle.
Project description:Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal muscle wasting disorder caused by dystrophin deficiency. Previous work suggested that increased expression of the dystrophin-related protein utrophin in the mdx mouse model of DMD can prevent dystrophic pathophysiology. Physiological tests showed that the transgenic mouse muscle functioned in a way similar to normal muscle. More recently, it has become possible to analyse disease pathways using microarrays, a sensitive method to evaluate the efficacy of a therapeutic approach. We thus examined the gene expression profile of mdx mouse muscle compared to normal mouse muscle and compared the data with that obtained from the transgenic line expressing utrophin. The data confirm that the expression of utrophin in the mdx mouse muscle results in a gene expression profile virtually identical to that seen for the normal mouse. This study confirms that a strategy to up-regulate utrophin is likely to be effective in preventing the disease. Experiment Overall Design: Here we have addressed important question of changes in the global gene expression profile of mdx mouse muscle compared to normal mouse muscle and compared the data with that obtained from the transgenic line (fiona) expressing high level of utrophin on mdx background.
Project description:Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal muscle wasting disorder caused by dystrophin deficiency. Previous work suggested that increased expression of the dystrophin-related protein utrophin in the mdx mouse model of DMD can prevent dystrophic pathophysiology. Physiological tests showed that the transgenic mouse muscle functioned in a way similar to normal muscle. More recently, it has become possible to analyse disease pathways using microarrays, a sensitive method to evaluate the efficacy of a therapeutic approach. We thus examined the gene expression profile of mdx mouse muscle compared to normal mouse muscle and compared the data with that obtained from the transgenic line expressing utrophin. The data confirm that the expression of utrophin in the mdx mouse muscle results in a gene expression profile virtually identical to that seen for the normal mouse. This study confirms that a strategy to up-regulate utrophin is likely to be effective in preventing the disease. Keywords: Global gene expression profile
