Project description:We combined genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of buccal cells from 47 full-term one-week old infants with accurate measurements of infant fat mass and fat-free mass using air-displacement plethysmography and found no significant a between DNA methylation and infant body composition
Project description:Transcriptional Profiling of Insulin Sensitive and Insulin Resistant Samples Sixty two participants at the tail ends of the distribution of insulin sensitivity adjusted for age, gender and natural logarithm of BMI for each ethnic group separately. Individuals at tail ends were well matched for age, gender, BMI, and percent fat, but were different for insulin sensitivity. Participants were of age 20 years to 55 years, body mass index (BMI) between 19 kg/m2 and 42 kg/m2, and had all biopsies obtained in the fasting state.
Project description:Transcription profiling by array of adult abdominal/thorasic fat body or midgut in S1106>dfoxo females after 5 days of induction of transgene expression by RU486 feeding.
Project description:Transcriptional characteristics of genes in the fat body of domestic silkworms after 24 h exposure to phoxim through whole-genome oligonucleotide microarray. Transcriptional profiling of fat body in the domestic silkworms comparing control untreated fat body with phoxim-treated fat body Transcription profiling experiments, phoxim-treated fat body (samples) were analyzed. Dual-channel experiments, with test samples labeled by Cy5 and control samples labeled by Cy3. Three Biological replicate. No dye-swaps.
Project description:N=134 human liver samples from morbidly obese patients and healthy controls were analysed by array-based mRNA expression profiling. Liver messenger RNA expression datasets from the German patients were generated on the HuGene 1.1 ST gene array The purpose of the study was to correlate these gene expression data with body mass index and with an epigenetic measure of age acceleration based on DNA methylation data.
Project description:N=134 human liver samples from morbidly obese patients and healthy controls were analysed by array-based mRNA expression profiling. Liver messenger RNA expression datasets from the German patients were generated on the HuGene 1.1 ST gene array The purpose of the study was to correlate these gene expression data with body mass index and with an epigenetic measure of age acceleration based on DNA methylation data. The liver samples come from subjects whose body mass index ranged from 14.8 to 70.2. Ages varied between 10 and 85. This dataset is part of the TransQST collection.
Project description:Single nucleotide polymorphisms in intron 1 of the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene were found to be associated with an increased risk of adult obesity. Enhanced FTO expression in mice leads to hyperphagia, increased fat mass, and higher body weight. Neuronal-specific FTOâ??deleted mice have an identical lean body weight phenotype to global FTO-deleted mice. The physiological role of adipose FTO in the homeostasis of energy regulation remains to be elucidated. We used microarrays to elucidate the metabolic pathways that are regulated by FTO in the white fat. FTO flox/flox and Adiponectin-cre FTO flox/flox (AFO) mice were fed with chow diet. White fat tissues from epididymal adipose pad were harvested under ad lib condition for RNA isolation. Three independent pools of FTO flox/flox and AFO mouse white fat RNA were included in the study.
Project description:Single nucleotide polymorphisms in intron 1 of the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene were found to be associated with an increased risk of adult obesity. Enhanced FTO expression in mice leads to hyperphagia, increased fat mass, and higher body weight. Neuronal-specific FTO–deleted mice have an identical lean body weight phenotype to global FTO-deleted mice. The physiological role of adipose FTO in the homeostasis of energy regulation remains to be elucidated. We used microarrays to elucidate the metabolic pathways that are regulated by FTO in the white fat.
Project description:Purpose: To examine the temporal changes in intestinal tuft cell number and activity in response to intake of a high fat diet and investigate the relation to whole-body energy metabolism and the immune phenotype of the small intestine and epididymal white adipose tissue (eWAT). Methods: C57BL/6J mice were fed either a low fat reference diet (RFD, 10 % kcal fat) or a high fat diet (HFD, 60% kcal fat) for 9 or 22 weeks, followed by characterization of whole-body metabolic parameters, transcription profiles of sorted intestinal tuft cells, and immune phenotypes of tissues. Results: HFD feeding was associated with reductions in the overall number of small intestinal epithelial cells and tuft cells and reduced expression of the intestinal type 2 tuft cell markers Il25 and Tslp. Amongst >1,700 diet-regulated genes in tuft cells identified by RNA-seq, we observed an early association between body mass expansion and increased expression of Serpini1, which encodes the serine protease inhibitor neuroserpin. By contrast, tuft cell expression of genes encoding the GABA-receptors linked to reduced body mass gain. Although we observed a HFD-induced change in the eWAT inflammatory profile, the small intestinal lamina propria displayed a consistent non-inflammatory phenotype, and small intestinal tuft cell-derived transcripts were found to correlate with whole body metabolic features independently of intestinal immune cell involvement. Conclusion: Our These findings point to a role for small intestinal tuft cells in systems-wide metabolic regulation.
Project description:To decipher the beneficial effects of Polyphenols on health, healthy volunteers were randomized into two groups and were submitted to either a red grape polyphenol rich extract supplemented diet (PP) or a placebo diet (PCB) during 8 weeks. Then they were submitted to a fructose load (3g/kg Fat Free Mass/day) during 7 days. Muscle biopsies were taken before the protocol, 8 weeks after PP or PCB diet and after the 7 days fructose load. We have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify genes regulated by fructose and to identify the mechanism of action of Polyphenols. Healthy volunteers were randomized into two groups and were submitted to either a red grape polyphenol rich extract supplemented diet (PP) or a placebo diet (PCB) during 8 weeks. Then they were submitted to a fructose load (3g/kg Fat Free Mass/day) during 7 days. Muscle biopsies were taken before the protocol, 8 weeks after PP or PCB diet and after the 7 days fructose load. We have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify genes regulated by fructose and to identify the mechanism of action of Polyphenols. Ten biological replicates were processed for PP diet, nine for PCB diet.