Project description:Effect of 17beta-oestradiol (E2) on gene expression in human cardiac tissues and the interaction between the treatment with E2 and the sex.
Project description:The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of sex on gene expression in LV of AS patients at the time of AVR. LV samples of men (n = 9; age: 75 M-1 8 y) and women (n = 10; age: 72 M-1 9 y) undergoing AVR were used for RNA isolation. Genome-wide expression profiling was performed using the Affymetrix platform and the data were analyzed with R and Bioconductor. Diseased samples were compared with LV samples of men (n = 10; age: 56 M-1 4 y) and women (n = 8; age: 56 M-1 5 y) with no apparent cardiovascular disorder.
Project description:The heart of late pregnant (LP) rodents is more prone to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury compared to non-pregnant rodents. We hypothesized that Intralipid (ITLD) protects the heart in LP rodents against I/R injury. We performed genome-wide expression profiling to identify the underlying mechanisms. Female LP rat hearts were subjected to ischemia followed by reperfusion with vehicle or ITLD (one bolus of 5mg/kg).
Project description:Doxorubicin (DOXO), a chemotherapeutic drug, is cardiotoxic. We hypothesized that folic acid is an effective therapeutic agent in a mouse model of DOXO-induced cardiotoxicity. We performed genome-wide expression profiling to identify the underlying mechanisms. Male C57Bl6 2-mo old mice received DOXO (1x20 mg/kg, ip) or saline (sham). FA (10 mg/d) or placebo (plac) was administered 7d before DOXO administration until the end of the experiment (10d).
Project description:Most epithelial ovarian cancers are thought to arise from different cells in the ovarian or fallopian tube epithelium. We hypothesized that these distinct cells-of-origin may play a role in determining ovarian tumor phenotype and also could inform the molecular classification of ovarian cancer. To test this hypothesis, we developed new methods to isolate and culture paired normal human ovarian (OV) and fallopian tube (FT) epithelial cells from multiple donors without cancer and identified a cell-of-origin gene expression signature that distinguished these cell types within the same patient. Application of the OV versus FT cell-of-origin gene signature to gene expression profiles of primary ovarian cancers permitted identification of distinct OV and FT-like subgroups among these cancers. Importantly, the normal FT-like tumor classification correlated with a significantly worse disease-free survival. This work describes a new experimental method for culture of normal human OV and FT epithelial cells from the same patient. These findings provide new evidence that cell-of-origin is an important source of ovarian tumor heterogeneity and the associated differences in tumor phenotype. We analyzed 12 samples from two donor patients and established cultures of both ovarian epithelium and fallopian tube epithelium (hTERT immortalized), each with 3 replicates (different culture passages).
Project description:Mesenchymal Stem Cells have been seeded on calcium based biomaterials. miRNA expression is evaluated at day 0 (unseeded cells), day 5, and day 10, in order to study miRNA differential expressions at different time points and infer if biomaterial induced miRNA expression variation able to differentiate stem cells towards the osteoblasts lineage.
Project description:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric condition of children with a prevalence of 5-10% worldwide. Up to 30% of adults with a history of childhood ADHD maintain symptoms in later life; these adult ADHD patients are severely impaired in social and professional life due to persistence of ADHD core symptoms like impulsivity, attention deficit and hyperactivity as well as frequently observed co-morbidities like alcohol and drug abuse, major depression, bipolar and personality disorders. Pharmaceutical treatment options include methylphenidate (MPH), which is amongst others an inhibitor of the dopamine transporter and therefore increases dopamine levels in the brain. However, not all ADHD patients are MPH responders with clinical features to distinguish responders and non-responders being not at hand so far. Likewise, neurobiological reasons for drug response are still elusive. Here, we examined the global transcriptional response of MPH on lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) derived from ADHD patients and unaffected controls.
Project description:Glioblastoma cells are characterized by a highly invasive behavior whose mechanisms are not yet understood. Using the wound healing and Boyden chamber assays we compared in the present study the migration and invasion abilities of 5 glioblastoma cell lines (DK-MG, GaMG, U87-MG, U373-MG, SNB19) differing in p53 and PTEN status. We also analyzed by Western blotting the expression of PTEN, p53, mTOR and several other marker proteins involved in cell adhesion, migration and invasion. Among 5 cell lines, GaMG cells exhibited the fastest rate of wound closure, whereas U87-MG cells showed the most rapid chemotactic migration in the Boyden chamber assay. In DK-MG and GaMG cells, F-actin mainly occurred in the numerous stress fibers spanning the cytoplasm, whereas U87-MG, U373-MG and SNB19 cells preferentially expressed F-actin in filopodia and lamellipodia. Moreover, the two glioblastoma lines mutated in both p53 and PTEN genes (U373-MG and SNB19) were found to exhibit the fastest invasion rates through the Matrigel matrix. Here, we performed a gene expression profiling of the five glioblastoma cell lines to examine the molecular framework of differences in invasive behavior to find possible targets for chemo- and radiation therapy.
Project description:Research in human immunobiology is mainly based on working with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). However, recent investigations have shown that circulating CD4+ T cells are less sensitive to several T-cell activating monoclonal antibodies (mAb) and to recall antigens as compared to tissue-resident cells or cells that were in-vitro cultured at a high cell density of 10^7 cells/mL for 2 days at 37°C and 5% CO2 (RESTORE protocol, Römer et al., Blood 2011, PMID: 21931118). To explain the increase in sensitivity of CD4+ T-cells to mAbs and recall antigens on a molecular level, we performed microarray hybridizations of total RNA from T-cells isolated from PBMC that were cultured at a low or high cell density. To avoid the detection of genes that are up- or down-regulated by the culture process itself, we used low cell density cultured PBMC, instead of freshly prepared PBMC. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying differences in the cell density of human PBMC and identified genes that are significantly up- or downregulated dependent on the cell density of PBMC. Human PBMC of one healthy blood donor were cultured at a low cell density (10^6 cells/mL) or at a high cell density (10^7 cells/mL) for 2 days at 37°C and 5% CO2 and CD4 or CD8 T-cells of both cultures were isolated by MACSbeads. Expression profiles from total RNA extracts were generated by hybridization to Affymetrix microarrays.