Project description:HUVEC were left untreated or stimulated for 5h with 2 ng/ml TNF. Comparsion of the gene profiles revealed TNF-mediated gene expression changes in HUVEC. Keywords: parallel sample
Project description:TNF is known to promote opening of the endothelial pannexin 1 (Panx1) membrane channel, allowing for ATP release, associated with inflammatory cell recruitment. However, there is evidence that Panx1 may be involved in the regulation of cellular inflammatory responses independent of direct ATP signalling, although the pathways have not been elucidated. We therefore examined Panx1 for roles in the control of cytokine release in human endothelial cells following treatment with TNF.
Project description:HUVEC were left untreated or stimulated for 5h with 2 ng/ml TNF. Comparsion of the gene profiles revealed TNF-mediated gene expression changes in HUVEC.
Project description:To assess if HUVEC and HUAEC differ in suscptibility to inflammation and inflammation resolution, the cells were stimulated for 24 hrs with TNF followed by RNA isolation. Two additional groups were first stimulated with TNF (24 hr) followed by TNF removal (12 and 24 hrs). Expression profiles were compared to basal conditions, i.e. cells cultured in normal medium We used micro-arrays to assess if Gene-xpression profiles between HUVEC and HUAEC differ under inflammatory conditions and under conditions of inflammation resolution
Project description:Effect of TNF-alpha on microRNAs levels in Human Umbilical Endothelial Cells (HUVECs). HUVEC that were treated or not for 2 or 24 hours with TNF (10 ng/ml). Duplicate samples (1 or 2) of two different isolations of HUVEC (A or B)
Project description:Anti-TNF therapies are a core anti-inflammatory approach for chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s Disease. Previously, we and others found that TNF blocks the emergence and function of alternatively-activated or M2 macrophages involved in wound healing and tissue-reparative functions. Conceivably, anti-TNF drugs could mediate their protective effects in part by an altered balanced of macrophage activity. To understand the mechanistic basis of how TNF regulates tissue-reparative macrophages we used RNAseq, scRNAseq, ATACseq, time-resolved phospho-proteomics, gene-specific approaches, metabolic analysis and signaling pathway deconvolution. Our findings reveal that TNF controls tissue-reparative macrophage gene expression in a highly gene-specific way dependent on JNK signaling. We uncover principles of the selectively inhibition by TNF via the type 1 TNF receptor on specific populations of alternative activated macrophages.
Project description:HUVEC (N=3 isolates) were separately grown to sub-confluency, and to confluency. In order to study the effects of growth and contact inhibition on the transcriptome, the microarray gene expression profiles of these sub-confluent and confluent HUVEC were compared. Keywords: HUVEC, confluency, contact inhibition
Project description:The many steps involved in the production of a mature mammalian mRNA are extensively coupled, and levels of both precursors and products can be measured using expression and genomic tiling microarrays. Different probes in these arrays targeting the same transcript often give different signals; then, precursor (nascent) RNA – which is present transiently at low concentrations – is difficult to detect. Keywords: TNFa stimulation time course of HUVEC
Project description:Question Addresses: What is the gene expression profile from human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and human Jurkat T cells after irradiation (IR)? What, if any, is the effect of co-culturing these two cell types on gene expression? There are eight experimental conditions for this experiment: (1) non-irradiated HUVEC; (2) irradiated HUVEC; (3) non-irradiated Jurkat; (4) irradiated Jurkat; (5) non-irradiated HUVEC + non-irradiated Jurkat+; (6) non-irradiated HUVEC + irradiated Jurkat; (7) irradiated HUVEC + non-irradiated Jurkat; (8) irradiated HUVEC + irradiated Jurkat. A common, pooled reference consisting of RNA taken from conditions 1-8 as described above was used for all hybridizations.