ABSTRACT: Urethra was partially ligated and the urinary bladder was removed 10 days or 6 weeks after obstruction. Sham operated rats were used as controls. An addtitonal group of rats were repoerated 6 weeks after surgery and the obstruction was removed. These rats were then sacrificed 10 days after deobstruction. The bladder (including the urothelium) was frozen and used for RNA extraction. Urinary bladders from sham-operated, 10 days and 6 weeks after obstruction and rats 10 days after deobstruction were compared. mRNA and microRNA were both analyzed.
Project description:Urethra was partially ligated and the urinary bladder was removed 10 days or 6 weeks after obstruction. Sham operated rats were used as controls. An addtitonal group of rats were repoerated 6 weeks after surgery and the obstruction was removed. These rats were then sacrificed 10 days after deobstruction. The bladder (including the urothelium) was frozen and used for RNA extraction.
Project description:Bilateral freezing of the pelvic ganglia in female rats were performed to denervate the urinary bladder. Sham operated rats were used as controls. The rats were sacrificed 10 days after surgery. The urinary bladders (including the urothelium) were frozen and used for RNA extraction.
Project description:Bilateral freezing of the pelvic ganglia in female rats were performed to denervate the urinary bladder. Sham operated rats were used as controls. The rats were sacrificed 10 days after surgery. The urinary bladders (including the urothelium) were frozen and used for RNA extraction.
Project description:Prostatic inflammation plays a role in the progression of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Eviprostat is an antiinflammatory and antioxidant phytotherapeutic agent widely used to treat lower urinary tract symptoms in BPH. However, because Eviprostat is a mixture of compounds from multiple natural sources, its mechanism of action has been difficult to investigate. In this study, we used oligonucleotide microarrays to identify changes in gene expression that occur in the prostate of rats with surgically induced partial bladder outlet obstruction and the effect of Eviprostat on those changes. Male rats were divided into four groups of five or six animals each. The rats in groups 1 and 2 underwent a sham operation. Five days after the sham operation, group 1 was treated twice a day with vehicle (0.1% (w/v) Tween 80; sham/vehicle group) and group 2 was treated twice a day with 18 mg/kg Eviprostat (36 mg/kg daily; sham/Eviprostat group). The rats in groups 3 and 4 underwent surgical partial bladder outlet obstruction. Briefly, with the rat in the supine position, a midline suprapubic incision was made and the bilateral prostate was retracted to expose the neck of the bladder and the urethra, care being taken not to damage the bladder. The loose connective tissue at the base of the bladder was dissected away from the proximal urethra. A rubber ring was cut open and placed around the proximal urethra, and a 4-0 silk ligature was tied around the rubber ring. From the day after the operation, group 3 was treated twice a day for five days with vehicle (operated/vehicle group) and group 4 was treated twice a day for five days with 18 mg/kg Eviprostat (36 mg/kg daily; operated/Eviprostat group). On the sixth day, 2 h after the last administration, the rats were sacrificed and the prostate was rapidly removed.
Project description:We compared transcriptomic profiles of hepatic macrophages between sham operated rats, rats 3 days and 10 days after partial portal vein ligation (PPVL) surgery (n=3). The number of genes with a significant change was most numerous in Sham vs 3 days, followed by Sham vs 10 days and 3 days vs 10 days.
Project description:Three weeks after infarction, age matched rats with large infarction by ECG criteria were randomly assigned to one of the three groups: 1) Treatment with Captopril for 21 days and a daily subcutaneous dose of DITPA for the last 10 days of treatment, 2) Treatment for 10 days with DITPA alone, 3) Control heart failure and 4) Sham-operated. Keywords: Drug Effects on Heart Failure
Project description:Rat bladder cancer cells (AY-27 cell line) were inoculated intravesically into syngeneic female Fischer rats. The bladder was analyzed by histology and Affymetrix GeneChips and compared to bladders from sham operated and normal rats.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of rat hippocampus comparing rats subjected to chronic (1 hour daily during 14 days) vetrolateral thalamus stimulation (DBS group) with sham operated rats (with electrode placement but without stimulation) and with naive rats.
Project description:Tissue from cleared mammary fat pad and sham-operated controlateral control was removed before and at 10, 15,17, and 19 days of pregnancy. Cleared vs. controlateral tissue was hybridized in dye-swap design to in-house cDNA microarry platform. This design aims to identify factors signaling from the epithelial part of the mammary gland to the surrounding fat pad to initiate adipo-epithelial transdifferentiation. We surgically removed the epithelial part of the 4th mammary gland (including the nipple and the rudimentary ductal tree) in three weeks old CD1 mice where the ductal anlage is confined to the proximal part of the mammary fat pad close to the nipple. The controlateral gland was sham-operated as control. This leaves a cleared mammary fat pad in its endogenous environment. The dissected tissues were subjected to whole mount analysis to judge if the removal of epithelial tissue was complete. At the age of 10 to 15 weeks the tissues were harvested before and 10, 15, 17, and 19 days after the start of pregnancy. RNA from cleared fat pads were compared to sham-operated contralateral controls by competitive hybridization on two-channel microarrays. If enough material was available three different pools of RNA (= three biological replicates) were used for hybridization (from d19 material only two replicates were obtained) in a dye-swap configuraiton (one biological replicate of d17 and d19 samples did not provide sufficient amount for a dyw-swap pair).