Project description:The aim of this study was to characterize the age-related gene expression profiles between bone marrow adipocytes and peripheral white adipocytes. Alterations of gene expression with aging were analyzed in bone marrow and peripheral white adipocytes isolated from C57BL/6J male mice using Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST arrays. Bone marrow adipocytes and peripheral white adipocytes (n=6-10 animals per group) were isolated from male C57BL/6J mice (6-months, 14-months and 18-months of age). Samples were grouped into cell type (bone marrow adipocytes vs. peripheral adipocytes) and age (6-month (6M), 14-month (14M) and 18-month (18M)).
Project description:It was recently demonstrated in mice that knockout of the flavin-containing monooxygenase 5 gene, Fmo5, slows metabolic ageing via pleiotropic effects. We have now used an NMR-based metabonomics approach to study the effects of ageing directly on the metabolic profiles of urine and plasma from male, wild-type C57BL/6J and Fmo5−/− (FMO5 KO) mice back-crossed onto the C57BL/6J background. The aim of this study was to identify metabolic signatures that are associated with ageing in both these mouse lines and to characterize the age-related differences in the metabolite profiles between the FMO5 KO mice and their wild-type counterparts at equivalent time points. We identified a range of age-related biomarkers in both urine and plasma. Some metabolites, including urinary 6-hydroxy-6-methylheptan-3-one (6H6MH3O), a mouse sex pheromone, showed similar patterns of changes with age, regardless of genetic background. Others, however, were altered only in the FMO5 KO, or only in the wild-type mice, indicating the impact of genetic modifications on mouse ageing. Elevated concentrations of urinary taurine represent a distinctive, ageing-related change observed only in wild-type mice.
Project description:The aim of this study was to characterize the obesity-related gene expression profiles between bone marrow adipocytes and peripheral white adipocytes from obese mice fed with high fat diet and leptin deficient mice Alterations of gene expression with high fat diet and in mice lacking leptin were analyzed in bone marrow and peripheral white adipocytes isolated from C57BL/6J male mice using Affymetrix Mouse Gene 1.0 ST arrays. Bone marrow adipocytes and peripheral white adipocytes (n=6-10 animals per group) were isolated from male C57BL/6J mice (6-months, 14-months ) fed with either standard chow or a high fat diet containg 60% calories from fat. Samples were grouped into diet (standard chow vs. high fat diet) and age (6-month (6M), 14-month (14M) and 18-month (18M)).
Project description:ApoE KO mice were treated with Mas receptor agonist AVE 0991 fo 16 weeks. At the age of 6 months mice were killed, the kidneys were dissected and the mitochondria were isolated by differential centrifugation. Next, 2DE electrophoresis was conduced. Healthy control (C57BL/6J mice), apoE KO and apoE KO treated with AVE 0991 were compared. Gel pieces containing protein spots of interest were destained, reduced, alkylated, digested with modified trypsin and analysed by LC-MS/MS method.
Project description:genomic DNA is isolated from C57BL/6 mice intestine at 3.1 months old females and 35.2 months old male. We used MCAM to identify genes that have age-related methylation changes.
Project description:Transcriptomic characterization of ABCD2 KO mice to fibrate treatment in liver tissue, 3 months of age ABCD2 KO and age-matched WT mice were administered fenofibrate (100 mg/kg/day) for 14 days.