Project description:To test the effect of chronic water avoidance stress on spinal microRNA expression profile in male wistar rats. Lumbar spinal cord samples were freshly isolated from rats exposed to daily water avoidance stress for 10 consecutive days. Samples were collected 24 hours after the last stressors.
Project description:To test the effect of chronic water avoidance stress on spinal gene expression profile in male wistar rats. Lumbar spinal cord samples were freshly isolated from rats exposed to daily water avoidance stress for 10 consecutive days. Samples were collected 24 hours after the last stressors.
Project description:Identification of temporal variations in miRNA expression after spinal cord injury caused by thoracic (T8) moderate (200 Kdynes) contusion. Expression changes were analyzed 1, 3 and 7 days after injury and compared to expression of control (untreated) and sham (laminectony but no contusion) individuals. Included groups: control (untreated), 1 day after lesion, 3 days after lesion, 7 days after lesion, 1 days after SHAM cirugy, 3 days after SHAM cirugy, and 7 days after SHAM cirugy. Each of these 7 groups included 5 biological replicates.
Project description:The aim of our study is to identify miRNAs responsible for bone-cancer pain condition and their target mRNAs. We combined mRNA profiling with Affymetrix microarray and miRNA measurement with a qRT-PCR-based technique. Then, a cross-correlation of these data highlighted miRNA-mRNA pairs that were further characterized with functional experiments.
Project description:We used microarray gene expression analyses to unveil the mechanisms underlying NT-3-chitosan-induced spinal cord regeneration. Complete transaction of thoracic spinal cord at T7/8 was performed, with a 5 mm segment of the spinal cord being removed. The emptied space where either refilled with a 5mm chitosan tube loaded with or without NT-3 (NT-3 or empty tube, ET, respectively) or left alone (lesion control, LC). At 1, 3, 10, 20, 30, 60, 90days post surgery, animals were sacrificed, and 5mm segments of spinal cord at the lesion site, as well as immediately caudal or rostral to the lesion segment were collected labeled with R for rostral, C for caudal, and M for lesion site
Project description:Sprouty proteins are evolutionarily conserved modulators of mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. Sprouty2 appears to function as a tumor suppressor in cancers, whereas we reported earlier that Sprouty2 functions as an oncogene in colorectal cancer. To further understand the oncogenic potential of Sprouty2 in the colon, microRNA expression profile of colon cancer cells was investigated. Sprouty2 suppression in HCT116 colon cancer cells significantly increased MicroRNA 194-5p. Sprouty2 dependent regulation of microRNA194-5p and its biological targets were studied further for their tumor suppressive actions in reducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition in colorectal cancer. Sprouty2 knockdown was performed by infecting HCT116 cells with three different lentivirus expressing shRNAs against human Sprouty2 mRNA and a control non targeted non-silencing shRNA (Sprouty2 MISSION shRNA Lentiviral Transduction Particles; TRCN 0000007522, TRCN 0000231589, TRCN 0000231588 and a non-targeted shRNA control from Sigma) following lentiviral transduction protocols provided by Sigma. Due to the random integration of the lentivirus into the host genome, varying levels of Sprouty2 gene knockdown was expected in puromycin resistant colonies. Three colonies in triplicate that demonstrated highest to lowest level of Sprouty2 suppression, as assessed by western blotting, were selected. RNA samples from these colonies and one from non-targeted shRNA expressing colony were prepared for microRNA expression profile analysis. Pooled RNA samples from each group were shipped to Exiqon for microRNA profiling based on miRCURY LNATM array technology.