Project description:Long-term consequences of preeclampsia were studied by high-throughput approaches (Transcriptomics, Luminex cytokine profile) in mice 8 months after the disease in the heart, in the endothelial cells and in the plasma. In the heart we found a persisting ventricular hypertrophy with an altered histology and an abnormal ultrasound Doppler profile under effort simulation by dobutamine injection. The transcriptomic profile of the endothelium revealed a deregulation for 1149 genes (327 down-regulated and 822 up-regulated, with a threshold of 1.5, p<0.05). The up-regulated genes could be grouped consistently in gene pathways and gene ontology terms mainly focused on Inflammation and Stress sensu lato. A cytokine profile of the mouse serum was carried out. Using a combination of 8 cytokines (Cxcl13, Cxcl16, Cxcl11, Il-16, Il-10, Il-2, Il-4 and Ccl1) in a Discriminant Analysis, we were able to separate unambiguously the mice having had a preeclamptic pregnancy from the controls. Seven out of eight of these cytokines (with the exception of Il-16) varied in the same direction in the endothelium and in the plasma. In sum, our study shows that preeclampsia alone is able to trigger considerable long-term consequences, and suggests that specific cytokines could help to improve the follow-up of patients long after a preeclamptic pregnancy.
Project description:Asthma bronchiale is an inflammatory disease of the respiratory airways and a major factor of increasing health care costs worldwide. The molecular actors leading to asthma are not fully understood and require further investigation. The aim of this study was to monitor the proteome during asthma development from early inflammatory to late fibrotic stages. A time-course-based ovalbumin (OVA) mouse model was applied to establish an asthma phenotype and the lung proteome was analysed at four time points during asthma development (0 weeks = control, 5 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks of OVA treatment).
Project description:The aim of the project was the analysis of the bulk proteome and phosphoproteome in 3D organoids (tubuloids) from the adult mouse kidney. Proteome (nearly 9000 proteins) and phosphoproteome (nearly 16000 phospho sites) were compared in three biological (independent) replicates of epithelial organoids (early passage and long-term, 3-month cultures) and freshly isolated, MAC-sorted, Epcam-positive kidney epithelial cells. After collection of the organoids, Matrigel was removed using a non-enzymatic solution.