Transcription profiling of mouse thyroid from Slc26a4 animals vs. heterzygous controls.
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ABSTRACT: Determination of differential expression of genes in the thyroid of pendrin (Slc26a4) heterozygous and knockout mice at a time point corresponding to maximal thyroid gland activity, postnatal day 15 (P15). Experiment Overall Design: A total of Six samples of thyroid RNA obtained from P15 mice were analyzed. Triplicates from pendrin (Slc26a4) heterozygous and knockout mice were run and analyzed.
Project description:Determination of differential expression of genes in the thyroid of pendrin (Slc26a4) heterozygous and knockout mice at a time point corresponding to maximal thyroid gland activity, postnatal day 15 (P15). Keywords: Differential expression under disease state
Project description:Determination of differential expression of genes in the stria vascularis of pendrin (Slc26a4) heterozygous and knockout mice before the onset of hearing at postnatal day 10 (P10). Experiment Overall Design: A total of Six samples of stria vascularis RNA obtained from P10 mice were analyzed. Triplicates from pendrin (Slc26a4) heterozygous and knockout mice were run and analyzed.
Project description:The serum hormone levels including T3 and T4 were dramatically decreased in Glis3-null mice due to reduced production of thyroid hormones in thyroid. Gene expression profile and EdU incorporation analysis between WT and Glis3-null mice showed that the cell proliferation was greatly reduced in Glis3-null thyroid. Goitergenic diet (low iodine diet; LID) dramatically enhanced serum TSH levels in both WT and Glis3-null mice, however thyroid goiter was observed in WT mice but not in Glis3-null mice. A subset of genes associated with thyroid hormone production including Pendrin (Slc26a4), Nis (Na+/I– symporter, Slc5a5), Duoxa2 (dualoxidase A2), Tpo (thyroperoxidase), and Dio1 (Deiodinase1) was significantly induced in WT but not in Glis3-null mice by LID feeding.
Project description:Determination of differential expression of genes in the stria vascularis of pendrin (Slc26a4) heterozygous and knockout mice before the onset of hearing at postnatal day 10 (P10). Keywords: differential expression under disease state
Project description:To see for differential expression of genes in the stria vascularis of wild type and pendrin knockout mice Experiment Overall Design: Six samples in total of stria vascularis RNA were analyzed. Triplicates from wild type and pendrin knockout mice were run and analyzed.
Project description:Genetic factors do not fully account for the relatively high heritability of neurodevelopmental conditions, suggesting that non-genetic heritable factors contribute to their etiology. To evaluate the potential contribution of aberrant thyroid hormone status to the epigenetic inheritance of neurological phenotypes, we examined genetically normal mice with paternal grandparents that were developmentally overexposed to thyroid hormone due to a Dio3 mutation. Hypothalamic gene expression profiling in postnatal day 15 mice with control ancestry (Control), with a Dio3KO paternal grandmother (PGM), with Dio3KO paternal grandfather (PGF), with a heterozygous DIo3KO mother (HM) and with a heterozygous DIO3KO father (HF).
Project description:Activation of thyroid stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) fundamentally leads to hyperthyroidism. To elucidate TSHR signaling, we conducted transcriptome analyses for hyperthyroid mice that we generated by overexpressing TSH. TSH overexpression drastically changed their thyroid transcriptome. In particular, enrichment analyses identified the cell cycle, phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase/Akt pathway, and Ras-related protein 1 pathway as possibly associated with goiter development. Regarding hyperthyroidism, Slc26a4 was exclusively upregulated with TSH overexpression among genes crucial to thyroid hormone secretion. To verify its significance, we overexpressed TSH in Slc26a4 knockout mice. TSH overexpression caused hyperthyroidism in Slc26a4 knockout mice, equivalent to that in control mice. Thus, we did not observe significant changes in known genes and pathways involved in thyroid hormone secretion with TSH overexpression. Our datasets might include candidate genes that have not yet been identified as regulators of thyroid function. Our transcriptome datasets regarding hyperthyroidism can contribute to future research on TSHR signaling.
Project description:To see for differential expression of genes in the stria vascularis of wild type and pendrin knockout mice Keywords: Knockout vs Control
Project description:Amiodarone reversibly decreases sodium-iodide symporter mRNA expression at therapeutic concentrations and induces antioxidant responses at supraphysiological concentrations in cultured human thyroid follicles Amiodarone, a potent antiarrhythmic agent, is a highly active oxidant, exerting cytotoxic effects on thyrocytes at pharmacological concentrations. Patients receiving amiodarone usually remain euthyroid, but occasionally develop thyroid dysfunction, such as amiodarone-associated hypothyroidism or amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis. To elucidate the mechanism by which amiodarone elicits thyroid dysfunction, human thyroid follicles were cultured with TSH and amiodarone at therapeutic (1-2 microM) and pharmacological (10-20microM) concentrations, and the drug-induced effect on whole human gene expression was analyzed by cDNA microarray. Amiodarone at 1-2microM decreased the expression level of the sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) to nearly half, but did not affect genes participating in thyroid hormonogenesis (thyroid peroxidase, thyroglobulin, pendrin, NADPH oxidase). Higher concentrations (10-20 microM) decreased the expression of all these genes, accompanied by increased expression of antioxidant proteins such as heme oxygenase 1 and ferritin. When thyroid follicles obtained from a patient with Graves’ disease who had been treated with amiodarone for 2 months before thyroidectomy were cultured in amiodarone-free medium, TSH-induced thyroid function was intact, suggesting that amiodarone at a maintenance dose did not elicit any cytotoxic effect on thyrocytes. The ultrastructural features of cultured thyroid follicles were compatible with these in vitro findings. These in vitro and ex vivo findings suggest that patients taking maintenance doses of amiodarone usually remain euthyroid, probably due to escape from the Wolff-Chaikoff effect mediated by decreased expression of NIS mRNA. Furthermore, amiodarone is not cytotoxic for thyrocytes at therapeutic concentrations but elicits cytotoxicity through oxidant activity at supra-physiological concentrations. Keywords: Cultured human thyroid follicles