Project description:Comparison of gene expression profiles in 12 resected specimens from achalasia, a rare motility disorder characterized manometrically by the absence of peristalsis and an incompletely relaxing lower esophageal sphincter (LES), patients with those from 5 controls to identify critical genes and highly perturbed pathways with potential involvement in achalasia
Project description:Obesity results from a chronic imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure, with excess calories stored as fat. As such, weight loss has long been considered as a primary goal of treatment for obesity. A surgical treatment of severe obesity such as gastric bypass provides the most dramatic reductions in body weight, and a well-known effect of weight loss is an improvement in insulin sensitivity. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this association remains unclear. Thus, we profiled skeletal muscle of morbidly obese patients before and after gastric bypass surgery. Results from this project will provide global patterns of gene expression with weight loss, which help to understand the pathogenesis of obesity at the molecular level. Experiment Overall Design: To identify responsive genes to weight loss.
Project description:Analysis of a clinical urothelial cancer cohort for their spatial tryptic peptide composition in two different tissue types, tumor and stroma, and two tumor subtypes, muscle-infiltrating and non muscle-infiltrating tumors.
Project description:Prediction of neurological outcomes shortly after cardiac arrest would represent a major breakthrough. We tested the ability of gene expression profiles of blood cells to predict outcome in cardiac arrest patients. 35 consecutive cardiac arrest patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia (33°C for 24h) were included in this prospective monocentre study. Cerebral Performance Category (CPC) was determined at discharge and 6 months later. All patients had blood sampling at the end of hypothermia. Gene expression profiles of blood cells were determined using 25,000~gene microarray in two groups of patients: good outcome (CPC 1-2) and bad outcome (CPC 3-5).
Project description:The present study aimed to delineate the central mechanisms by which androgens delay wound repair. Blocking the conversion of testosterone to 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by 5alpha-reductase limits its ability to impair skin wound healing, suggesting that DHT is a more potent inhibitor of repair than is testosterone. This study aims to identify, through transcription profiling, potential mechanisms by which the 5alpha-reductase inhibitor MK-434 modulates repair. Microarray analysis of wound RNA samples from rats in which the transformation of testosterone to DHT is prevented has identified biological processes and key individual genes through which DHT may contribute to the altered healing profile in such animals. These include genes with putative roles in wound contraction and re-epithelialization.
Project description:We investigated the gene and exon espression profiling in muscle biopsies of patients affected by inclusion body myosistis, polymyositis and in normal muscle controls
Project description:Current selection criteria for liver transplant in patients with HCC (the Milan criteria) do not incorporate biologic metrics. MiRNA expression profiles correlate with HCC recurrence after transplant and can add significant value to the Milan criteria. MiRNA expression profiles were studied in HCC specimens from patients undergoing liver transplant and correlated with their tumor recurrence status and Milan criteria status.
Project description:Estrogen receptor positive MCF-7 and estrogen receptor negative MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells treated with 10µg/ml phytoestrogen Emodin (1,3,8-trihydroxy-6-methylanthraquinone) and their control cells (untreated with Emodin) were incubated for 48 hours. All samples were prepared as duplicates to have biological replicates. Isolated RNA samples were used for miRNA microarray analysis. Through this experiment miRNA profiling of breast cancer cells having estrogen receptor and not were revealed upon phytoestrogen Emodin treatment.
Project description:The brain and spinal cord are endowed with particular vascular systems, known as the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-spinal cord barrier (BSCB) respectively, which maintain homeostasis between nervous parenchyma and peripheral circulation. Despite these common features, the BSCB presents structural and functional differences resulting in distinct vulnerability to pathological insults when compared to the BBB. Although, the heterogeneity of endothelial cell types underlies their remarkable ability to sub-specialize and provide specific requirements for a given vascular bed, very little is known concerning intrinsic differences between microvascular endothelial cells (MECs) derived from brain (BMECs) and spinal cord (SCMECs), including their response to inflammation. We used Agilent Whole Rattus Genome Microarray 4X44K to compare rat BMECs and SCMECs in both basal and inflammatory conditions; TNF-α-induced, TWEAK-induced and LPS-induced gene expression after 6 hr, 12 hr, 24 hr and 48 hr incubation.
Project description:Three 2cm segments were excised from different parts (TOP, MID, BOT) along the vertical axis of a 4 week old (25cm) stem of flax (L. usitatissimum) were compared using a cDNA amplicon array. Each segment represented a different developmental stage, especially in relation to bast fibre differentiation (i.e. TOP= elongation, MID=transition, BOT= thickening). Only the cDNAs that showed the highest differential expression were sequenced.