Project description:Laminar shear stress due to constant blood flow is known to play a critical role in maintaining vascular health. In contrast, endothelial cell senescence appears to be closely associated with the incidence of vascular disorder. In an attempt to identify functional biomarkers for age-related vascular health/disease, the present study investigated differential gene expression of young and senescent human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) under static and laminar shear stress. We used a cDNA microarray method to compare gene expression profiles of young and senescent HUVECs under static and laminar shear stress conditions. Experiment Overall Design: Senescent cells were prepared by continuous subculture in vitro, and a cone-and-plate device was used to impose laminar shear stress onto cells. Young and senescent cells were exposed to laminar shear stress or maintained under static conditions. Total mRNA was extracted and gene expression profiles were analyzed by cDNA microarray.
Project description:Laminar shear stress due to constant blood flow is known to play a critical role in maintaining vascular health. In contrast, endothelial cell senescence appears to be closely associated with the incidence of vascular disorder. In an attempt to identify functional biomarkers for age-related vascular health/disease, the present study investigated differential gene expression of young and senescent human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) under static and laminar shear stress. We used a cDNA microarray method to compare gene expression profiles of young and senescent HUVECs under static and laminar shear stress conditions. Keywords: stress response, age state analysis
Project description:Senescent is an irreversible form of cell cycle arrest initiated by damaged cell constituents and subsequent pro-oncogenic signaling. Replicative senescence in vitro can be considered a model for human aging. When fibroblasts are cultured under atmospheric oxygen conditions of 20%, typical of normal tissue culture procedure, fibroblasts generally reach their replicative capacity at 50-60 population doublings (PDs). When fibroblasts are cultured under normal physiological oxygen conditions of 3%, PDs increase about 30% relative to atmospheric levels. Hence while oxygen is a requirement for normal aerobic respiration, it can contribute to the total amount of oxidative stress to which cells are exposed to, leading to a long-term adverse effect in vitro. Inasmuch, cultures maintained under hyperoxic and hypoxic conditions provide a convenient model system for assessing the relationship between oxygen/oxidative stress and senescence. We used microarrays to profile the changes in global gene expression during aging and senescence of Imr90 cells under growth oxygen conditions of 3% and 20%. Imr90 cells at various population doubling timepoints (young, old, and senescent) grown separately under 3 and 20% oxygen growth conditions were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. Timepoints from cells grown under 3% and 20% oxygen conditions were age matched via population doublings to ensure accurate cross sample comparison.
Project description:We applied in parallel RNA-Seq and Ribosome-profiling analyses to immortalized human primary BJ fibroblast cells under the following conditions: normal proliferation, quiescence (induced by serum depletion), senescence (induced by activation of the oncogenic RASG12V gene, and examined at early (5 days; pre-senescent state) and late (14 days; fully senescent state) time points), and neoplastic transformation (induced by RASG12V in the background of stable p53 and p16INK4A knockdowns and SV40 small-T expression. RNA-seq, using Illumina HiSeq 2000, was applied to BJ cells under 5 conditions: proliferation, quiescence, pre-senescence, full-senescence, and transfomed. Ribosome profiling, using Illumina HiSeq 2000, was applied to BJ cells under 5 conditions: proliferation, quiescence, pre-senescence, full-senescence, and transfomed.
Project description:Transcription profiling from young and pre-senescent IMR90 cells, transfected either with hTERT (pBabe-puro-hTERT) or vector control (pBabe-puro). Population doubling values are contained in Characteristics[generation] column.
Project description:Malignant melanoma might develop from melanocytic nevi in which the growth-arrested state has been broken. We analyzed the gene expression of young and senescent human melanocytes in culture. In this dataset we include the expression data of young and senescent human melanocytes.
Project description:In order to identify the transcriptome change and heterogeneity in replicative senescent cells and stress-induced senescent cells, =we measured 1600 single cell transcriptomes of young quiescent cells at a population doubling (PD) number of 38, middle age quiescent cells (PD = 48), replicative senescent (PD = 71) cells and 50Gy X-ray induced senescent cells of PD38 control cells by Drop-seq.