Project description:Based on the observation that arachidonic acid represses interferon beta induced transcriptional activation of hCXCL10, hIL12b and IDO1a in THP1 cells and MDMs within 3 h post treatment. This experiment was designed to find other transcripts effected in a similar fashion.
Project description:Natural killer cells were exptracted from PMBCs of healthy donors, exposed to arachidonic acid, Il-2, both, or ascites and their expression changes identified via RNAseq (QuantSeq).
Project description:In this project, we aimed to examine the transcriptional changes that occur after irradiation of intestinal organoid-derived subcutaneous heterotopic tumors over a 7 day period post-radiation treatment. AKPT (villinCreER;Apcfl/fl;KrasG12D/+;Trp53fl/fl;TgfbrIfl/fl) intestinal organoids were cultured, then suspended in a 50:50 phosphate buffered-saline and Matrigel mixture and subcutaneously implanted into male C57BL/6 mice. Two weeks after implantation, mice were given either a single dose of 15 Gy radiation or 3 doses of 7 Gy radiation. Tumours were harvested 4 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, and 7 days after receiving the single dose of 15 Gy or the final dose of 7 Gy radiation, as well as from corresponding non-irradiated controls. RNA was extracted from the collected tumours and processed for RNA sequencing.