ABSTRACT: Rats were subjected to bilateral rotator cuff tears of the right and left supraspinatus muscle. Muscles were harvested from each shoulder at 0, 10, 30, or 60 days post surgery.
Project description:Rats were subjected to bilateral rotator cuff tears of the right and left supraspinatus muscle. Muscles were harvested from each shoulder at 0, 10, 30, or 60 days post surgery.
Project description:Cardiotoxin was injected into left soleus muscle of adult rats. Right muscle was kept intact. Ambulation recovery was allowed for 8 weeks. After 8 weeks of regeneration period, both left and right soleus muscles were overloaded by the transection of synergists' tendons for 2 weeks.
Project description:Cardiotoxin was injected into left soleus muscle of adult rats. Right muscle was kept intact. Ambulation recovery was allowed for 8 weeks. After 8 weeks of regeneration period, both left and right soleus muscles were overloaded by the transection of synergists' tendons for 2 weeks. We tested 6 muscles for each group. RNA samples were mixed with same amount from each muscle toward analysis by microarray.
Project description:The experiment was designed to study the effects of blood pressure on gene expressions in the kidney cortex. Kidney cortex was harvested from seven SHR rats and eight WKY rats at 60 weeks of age. Both right and left kidney were taken out and pooled during RNA extraction
Project description:Rats underwent surgery for LAD ligation for 30 min followed by reperfusion. Heart ventricles were collected 2d or 7d after reperfusion. Keywords: rat heart ventricles, LAD - left anterior descending coronary artery, IR - ischemia-reperfusion
Project description:The right legs of 8 Brown-Norway male rats were denervated by a high sciatic nerve section in the hip region of the hind limb.Two months after denervation (6 months of age), extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles were removed from the operated legs. The EDL muscles from 8 age-matched non-operated rats served as innervated controls. Total RNA was isolated, labeled cDNA was prepared and hybridized to the Rat Atlas 1.2 Array II membranes (Clontech Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA). Keywords: other
Project description:We investigated the isolated working rat heart as a model to study early transcriptional remodeling induced by cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Because the mechanisms linking stress hyperglycemia and insulin resistance to increased peri-operative morbidity and mortality in the setting of open-heart surgery are still unclear, we also used this model to determine the transcriptional effects of exogenous glucose supply in absence or in presence of a preexisting state of myocardial insulin resistance. Male Sprague Dawley rats (200-224g) were kept on chow diet for 8 to 10 weeks, or fed a high-sucrose diet to induce myocardial insulin resistance. Following the feeding period, hearts were recovered, arrested in ice-cold Krebs-Henseleit (KH) buffer and subjected to 60 minutes normothermic reperfusion in the working mode with KH buffer supplemented with non-carbohydrate substrates plus glucose (25 mM) or mannitol (25 mM; osmotic control). Compared to non-perfused hearts, perfused hearts from chow-fed rats displayed a more than twofold increased expression for 71 genes (mannitol group) and 103 genes (glucose group) connected to inflammation, cell proliferation, and apoptosis. The same biological pathways were activated in hearts from insulin resistant rats, with 109 genes (mannitol group) and 70 genes (glucose group) up-regulated more than twofold when compared to the non-perfused hearts from high-sucrose diet-fed rats. The changes were highly similar to gene alterations occurring in the right atrium and left ventricle of open heart surgery patients, and included the up-regulation of the three master regulators of metabolic reprogramming MYC, NR4A1 and NR4A2. Targeted pathway analysis revealed an up-regulation of metabolic processes associated with the proliferation and activation of tissue-resident macrophages and fibroblasts. Although the remodeling occurred independently from glucose, glucose further increased the expression of a subset of genes associated with polarization of tissue reparative M2 macrophages. However, glucose failed to enhance the expression of M2-related markers in the isolated heart from rats rendered insulin resistant by high-sucrose feeding. These results expose the cellular components of the heart as a significant source of proinflammatory mediators released in response to stress associated with cardiac surgery with CPB, and suggest a major role for glucose as a signal in the determination of resident cardiac macrophage polarization.
Project description:The left kidneys of 8 Sprague-Dawley rats were removed and the rats were left for 2 weeks to recover. After 4 additional days (during which blood pressure measurements were obtained), they were injected daily subcut. with either saline (1ml/kg), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH, 0.2mg/kg) or dexamethasone (DEX, 0.02mg/kg) for 8 days before the right kidney was removed. ACTH and DEX treatment caused hypertension in the rats as illustrated by increased systolic blood pressure. The gene expression patterns of the kidneys were analysed using Affymetrix arrays. Keywords: repeat
Project description:In vivo high frequency stimulated of left dentate gyrus was performed on anaesthetised rats followed by RNA-seq to study long-term potentiation. Both left and right dentate gyrus was collected, sequenced and compared against each other for naive rats and for rats 30 min, 2 hours, and 5 hours post-HFS.
Project description:The right legs of 8 Brown-Norway male rats were denervated by a high sciatic nerve section in the hip region of the hind limb.Two months after denervation (6 months of age), extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles were removed from the operated legs. The EDL muscles from 8 age-matched non-operated rats served as innervated controls. Total RNA was isolated, labeled cDNA was prepared and hybridized to the Rat Atlas 1.2 Array II membranes (Clontech Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA).