Project description:The Long Evans/orl (LE/orl) rat is an animal model of inherited undescended testis (UDT). To explore genetic mechanisms of UDT, we studied differential gene expression in LE/orl and LE wild type (LE/wt) fetal gubernaculum and testis. Analyses of differentially expressed probe sets linked below as supplementary files: Analysis_methods.txt [A description of the analysis] gub.txt [Genes differentially expressed in between wt and orl gubernacula] testes.txt [Genes differentially expressed between wt and orl testes] wt.txt [Genes differentially expressed in wt gubernacular development] Keywords: strain/condition predisposition, disease state analysis, developmental
Project description:The Long Evans/orl (LE/orl) rat is an animal model of inherited undescended testis (UDT). To explore genetic mechanisms of UDT, we studied differential gene expression in LE/orl and LE wild type (LE/wt) fetal gubernaculum and testis. Analyses of differentially expressed probe sets linked below as supplementary files:; Analysis_methods.txt [A description of the analysis]; gub.txt [Genes differentially expressed in between wt and orl gubernacula]; testes.txt [Genes differentially expressed between wt and orl testes]; wt.txt [Genes differentially expressed in wt gubernacular development] Experiment Overall Design: Fetuses were harvested from timed matings of LE/wt and LE/orl rats at gestational day (GD) 17, 18, 19, and 20. Single gubernaculum and testis were removed from male fetuses and total RNA was isolated from each organ. Left organs were used, except for GD 20 fetuses where both right and left gubernacula were included. For female fetuses, the right and left gubernacula from a single fetus were pooled before RNA isolation. A total of 54 samples were hybridized to GeneChips; 34 gubernacular samples and 20 testes samples. There were 13 sample groups, each included biological replicate arrays. The sample groups were (1) female LE/wt GD18 gubernacula n=4, (2) male LE/wt GD18 left gubernacula n=4, (3) male LE/wt GD19 left gubernacula n=4, (4) male LE/wt GD20 left gubernacula n=4, (5) male LE/wt GD20 right gubernacula n=3, (6) male LE/orl GD18 left gubernacula n=4, (7) male LE/orl GD19 left gubernacula n=4, (8) male LE/orl GD20 left gubernacula n=4, (9) male LE/orl GD20 right gubernacula n=3, (10) male LE/wt GD17 left testes n=5, (11) male LE/wt GD19 left testes n=5, (12) male LE/orl GD17 left testes n=5, and (13) male LE/orl GD19 left testes n=5.
Project description:Insl3 is a testis-derived hormone that induces growth and differentiation of the fetal gubernaculum. The goal of this study was to identify genes showing altered expression in fetal gubernaculum following Insl3 exposure.
Project description:Analysis of hormone effects on irradiated LBNF1 rat testes, which contain only somatic cells except for a few type A spermatgogonia. Rats were treated for 2 weeks with either sham treatment (group X), hormonal ablation (GnRH antagonist and the androgen receptor antagonist flutamide, group XAF), testosterone supplementation (GnRH antagonist and testosterone, group XAT), and FSH supplementation ((GnRH antagonist, androgen receptor antagonist, and FSH, group XAFF). Results provide insight into identifying genes in the somatic testis cells regulated by testosterone, LH, or FSH.
Project description:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used to establish exhausted-exercise model by motorized rodent treadmill. Yu-Ping-Feng-San at doses of 2.18 g/kg was administrated by gavage before exercise training for 10 consecutive days. Quantitative proteomics was performed for assessing the related mechanism of Yu-Ping-Feng-San.
Project description:Cryptorchidism in the orl rat is associated with muscle patterning defects in the fetal gubernaculum and altered hormonal signaling
Project description:Insl3 is a testis-derived hormone that induces growth and differentiation of the fetal gubernaculum. The goal of this study was to identify genes showing altered expression in fetal gubernaculum following Insl3 exposure. The number of biological replicates processed initially were six controls, five 10 nM Insl3, and six 100 nM Insl3. Following data collection, two 10 nM Insl3 samples (biological replicates 4 and 5) were deemed to be outliers based upon Principal Component Analysis and a relatively low yield of biotin-labeled cRNA. The two outlier samples were not included in the statistical analysis.