Project description:Knee joint synovium was used for gene expression analysis of mouse collagen induced arthritis (CIA). Synovium was prepared at day 30 after initial sensitization from: healthy controls, CIA animals with no, with mild, with moderate, or with severe joint inflammation. Each sample group is represented by three replicates, each consisting of tissue collected from three to four animals. Experiment Overall Design: The data set consists of 15 samples: five groups with three replicates each. One sample group is from healthy controls, the other groups are from CIA animals with different degress of joint inflammation.
Project description:Knee joint synovium was used for gene expression analysis of mouse collagen induced arthritis (CIA). Synovium was prepared at day 30 after initial sensitization from: healthy controls, CIA animals with no, with mild, with moderate, or with severe joint inflammation. Each sample group is represented by three replicates, each consisting of tissue collected from three to four animals. Keywords: disease severity analysis
Project description:Oxylipins play important roles in various biological processes and are considered as mediators of inflammation for a wide range of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The purpose of this research was to study differences in oxylipin levels between a widely used collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) mice model and healthy control (Ctrl) mice. DBA/1J male mice (age: 6-7 weeks) were selected and randomly divided into two groups, viz. a CIA- and a Ctrl group. The CIA mice were injected intraperitoneal (i.p.) with the joint cartilage component collagen type II (CII) and an adjuvant injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Oxylipin metabolites were extracted from plasma for each individual sample using solid phase extraction (SPE) and were detected with high performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-ESI-MS/MS), using dynamic multiple reaction monitoring (dMRM). Both univariate and multivariate statistical analysis was applied. The results in univariate student's t-test revealed 10 significantly up- or down-regulated oxylipins in CIA mice, which were supplemented by another 6 additional oxylipins, contributing to group clustering upon multivariate analysis. The dysregulation of these oxylipins revealed the presence of ROS-generated oxylipins and an increase of inflammation in CIA mice. The results also suggested that the Collagen-induced arthritis might associate with dysregulation of apoptosis, possibly inhibited by activated NF- κ B because of insufficient PPAR-γ ligands.
Project description:The destruction of bone and cartilage results in a loss of joint functionality, critically impairing the quality of life in arthritis patients. Synovial fibroblasts (SFs) critically contribute to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by acquiring either a pro-inflammatory or tissue-destructive phenotype. To explore the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenic fibroblast phenotype in arthritis, we performed single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on the synovial cells which were isolated from collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) mice.
Project description:The molecular basis to autoimmune arthritis is unclear. Collagen Induced Arthritis (CIA) in mice, is a model that has many features that resemble Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), although it does not perfectly duplicate RA. The study of CIA has provided insight into relevant pathogenesis and has aided in the identification of potential therapeutic targets. In this study we used Mouse Cytokine Expression Arrays to examine gene expression levels in joints at early, peak and decline stages during disease in DBA/1 mice. The aim of the study was to identify candidate molecules that may be involved in the development and progression of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Keywords: Disease State Analysis
Project description:This study identifies molecular changes in hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) isolated from mice with chronic autoimmune arthritis induced using the collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) model.
Project description:Pathological bone changes differ considerably between inflammatory arthritic diseases, and most studies have focused on bone erosion. Collagen Induced Arthritis (CIA) is a model for Rheumatoid Arthritis, which, in addition to bone erosion, demonstrates bone formation at the time for clinical manifestations. The objective of this study was to use the CIA model to study bone remodelling by performing a gene expression profiling time-course study on the CIA model.
Project description:Pathological bone changes differ considerably between inflammatory arthritic diseases, and most studies have focused on bone erosion. Collagen Induced Arthritis (CIA) is a model for Rheumatoid Arthritis, which, in addition to bone erosion, demonstrates bone formation at the time for clinical manifestations. The objective of this study was to use the CIA model to study bone remodelling by performing a gene expression profiling time-course study on the CIA model. Three tarsal joints were sampled per clinical phase from the following clinical phases: Duration of clinical arthritis 0-3 days, duration of clinical arthritis 1-2 weeks, duration of clinical arthritis 3-4 weeks and duration of clinical arthritis minimum 3 weeks and declining (Twelve joints in total). For the clinical phase M-bM-^@M-^\DeclineM-bM-^@M-^] the joints had had a clinical score of 3 for minimum 3 weeks, after which the clinical score had declined minimum 1 score when the joint was sampled. For all other joints, the clinical score was 3 at the sampling time. The twelve joints were compared to three joints from non-induced control animals. The joints were processed and analysed separately (unpooledM-BM- ). The joints were snap-frozen in liquid N2 and stored at -80M-KM-^ZC. RNA was extracted using the mirVanaTM miRNA isolation kit (Ambion, Denmark), amplified and labelled using the Pico amplification kit (Nugen, San Carlos, USA), according to the manufacturersM-BM-4 instructions, followed by hybridisation to Mouse Gene 1.0ST microarrays (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, USA). The quality of the RNA was evaluated using RNA integrity numbers (RIN) and only samples with values of minimum 8.4 were chosen for further analysis.
Project description:We found microRNA miR-23b was down-regulated in local inflammatory tissues of autoimmune disease such as RA, SLE and related mouse models such as CIA, lpr, EAE. Re-expression of miR-23b significantly inhibits autoimmune pathogenesis of CIA, Lpr and EAE. To identify potential targets of miR-23b, we use microarray gene-expression analysis to identify transcripts which could be repressed by miR-23b. RA: rheumatoid arthritis, CIA: Collagen-induced arthritis, SLE: systemic lupus erythematosus, EAE: experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis