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Rat liver response to Clofibrate, DEHP or VPA

ABSTRACT: The project had 2 goals: 1) To evaluate the transcriptional response of 3 prototypical toxicants (Clofibrate, VPA, and DEHP) on rat lever. 2) To evaluate the impact pooling samples has on data analysis. Keywords = Clofibrate Keywords = Diethylhexyl phthalate Keywords = Phthalic acid bis(2-ethylhexyl ester) Keywords = Sodium Valproate Keywords = Valproic Acid Keywords = VPA Keywords = vehicle Keywords: other

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

PROVIDER: GSE2303 | GEO | 2005/06/02

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA91687

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Combining or pooling individual samples when carrying out transcript profiling using microarrays is a fairly common means to reduce both the cost and complexity of data analysis. However, pooling does not allow for statistical comparison of changes between samples and can result in a loss of information. Because a rigorous comparison of the identified expression changes from the two approaches has not been reported, we compared the results for hepatic transcript profiles from pooled vs. individual samples. Hepatic transcript profiles from a single-dose time-course rat study in response to the prototypical toxicants Clofibrate [CAS:637-07-0;CHEBI:3750], Diethylhexyl phthalate DEHP [CAS:117-81-7;CHEBI:17243], and valproic acid VPA [CAS:1069-66-5;CHEBI:9925],were evaluated. Approximately 50% more transcript expression changes were observed in the individual (statistical) analysis compared with the pooled analysis. While the majority of these changes were less than twofold in magnitude (~80%), a substantial number were greater than twofold (~20%). Transcript changes unique to the individual analysis were confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR, while all the changes unique to the pooled analysis did not confirm. The individual analysis identified more hits per biological pathway than the pooled approach. Many of the transcripts identified by the individual analysis were novel findings and may contribute to a better understanding of molecular mechanisms of these compounds. Furthermore, having individual animal data provided the opportunity to correlate changes in transcript expression to phenotypes (i.e., histology) observed in toxicology studies. The two approaches were similar when clustering methods were used despite the large difference in the absolute number of transcripts changed. In summary, pooling reduced resource requirements substantially, but the individual approach enabled statistical analysis that identified more gene expression changes to evaluate mechanisms of toxicity. An individual animal approach becomes more valuable when the overall expression response is subtle and/or when associating expression data to variable phenotypic responses.

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Rat liver response to Clofibrate, DEHP or VPA

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