ABSTRACT: Mouse high grade astrocytoma cells (GL261) treated with neural stem/precursor cell (NPC) conditioned medium or non-conditioned medium (control)
Project description:Primary astrocytomas of high histopathological grade (HG-astrocytomas) are largely restricted to older patients and are almost invariably fatal despite multimodal therapy. Here, we show that the young brain has an endogenous defense mechanisms against HG-astrocytomas. Neural precursor cells (NPCs) migrate to HG-astrocytomas, reduce glioma expansion and prolong survival by releasing a group of fatty-acid ethanolamides that have agonistic activity on the vanilloid receptor (transient receptor potential vanilloid subfamily member-1; TRPV1). TRPV1 expression is much higher in HG-astrocytomas than in the tumor-free brain and TRPV1 stimulation triggers tumor cell-death via the activating transcription factor-3 (ATF3) controlled branch of the ER-stress pathway. The anti-tumourigenic response of NPCs is lost with aging. NPC-mediated tumor suppression can be mimicked in the old brain by systemic administration of the synthetic vanilloid Arvanil, indicating that TRPV1 agonists hold potential as new HG-astrocytoma therapeutics. The goal of this microarray study was understand how neural stem / precursor cell (NPC) induced high grade astrocytoma cell-death is controlled by changes in gene expression. We investigated the gene-expression pattern in mouse high grade astrocytoma GL261 cells after incubation with NPC non-conditioned medium (controls) or NPC-conditioned medium by microarrays and found that endoplasmic reticulum stress genes like the activating transcription factor-3 (ATF3) were robustly up-regulated in NPC-conditioned medium treated mouse high grade astrocytoma cells, compared to controls. Comparison of two experimental groups (conditioned medium treated versus non-conditioned medium treated) in three dye swap experiments (6 arrays used in total).
Project description:Primary human skeletal muscle cells (Lonza) were treated with LLC1 conditioned medium, LLC1 conditioned medium plus Calcitriol, LLC1 non-conditioned medium or LLC1 non-conditioned medium plus Calcitriol for a period of 24 hours prior to isolation of RNA.
Project description:HCMV -treated and control human adult neural precurso cells (NPC) were used to extract RNA for profiling on DNA arrays Primary adult hippocampus-derived neural precursor cells were used at passage # 2-4 for HCMV infection, followed by RNA extraction at indicated times
Project description:Primary astrocytomas of high histopathological grade (HG-astrocytomas) are largely restricted to older patients and are almost invariably fatal despite multimodal therapy. Here, we show that the young brain has an endogenous defense mechanisms against HG-astrocytomas. Neural precursor cells (NPCs) migrate to HG-astrocytomas, reduce glioma expansion and prolong survival by releasing a group of fatty-acid ethanolamides that have agonistic activity on the vanilloid receptor (transient receptor potential vanilloid subfamily member-1; TRPV1). TRPV1 expression is much higher in HG-astrocytomas than in the tumor-free brain and TRPV1 stimulation triggers tumor cell-death via the activating transcription factor-3 (ATF3) controlled branch of the ER-stress pathway. The anti-tumourigenic response of NPCs is lost with aging. NPC-mediated tumor suppression can be mimicked in the old brain by systemic administration of the synthetic vanilloid Arvanil, indicating that TRPV1 agonists hold potential as new HG-astrocytoma therapeutics.
Project description:HCMV -treated and control human adult neural precurso cells (NPC) were used to extract RNA for profiling on DNA arrays Primary adult hippocampus-derived neural precursor cells were used at passage # 2-4 for HCMV infection, followed by RNA extraction at indicated times Primary adult neural precursor cells were infected with HCMV strains Towne and TR (O.1MOI) and RNA was extracted at 72 hrs postinfection for expression profiling on both HCMV and Affymetrix DNA arrays
Project description:The possibility of generating neural stem/precursor cells (NPCs) from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has opened a new avenue of research that might nurture bench-to bedside translation of novel and more efficient protocols of cell transplantation in central nervous system (CNS) myelin disorders. We have performed the transcriptome analysis in the spinal cord of mice with sham treated Experimental Animal Encephelomyletis (EAE), miPSC-NPC treated EAE mice and naive mice, in order understand the gene expression changes related to the miPSC-NPC treatment.
Project description:In this study was determined the global expression pattern of long non-coding RNAs, mRNAs, and miRNAs in pediatric astrocytoma of different histological grades. The Affymetrix HTA 2.0 array showed expression changes on one hundred-sixty two and two hundred-fifteen long non-coding RNAs in tumors (versus the control) and in GBM (versus low-grade astrocytoma), respectively. A total of seven astrocytic tumors and two control tissues were collected during the period of 2012–2014: four low-grade Ast (three pilocytic Ast (PAst) and one diffuse Ast (DAst)) and four high-grade Ast (four glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)).RNA was extracted from tissue samples using TRIzol (Ambion life technologies, Thermo Scientific Inc.) following the methodology described by Hongbao et al. 2008 and with certain modifications described by Vujovic et al. 2013. For expression analysis, Human Transcriptome Array 2.0 (HTA) (Santa Clara, CA, USA) was employed. in this study was determined the global expression pattern of long non-coding RNAs, mRNAs, and miRNAs in pediatric astrocytoma of different histological grades. The HTA 2.0 array showed expression changes on one hundred-sixty two and two hundred-fifteen long non-coding RNAs in tumors (versus the control) and in GBM (versus low-grade astrocytoma), respectively.
Project description:In this study was determined the global expression pattern of long non-coding RNAs, mRNAs, and miRNAs in pediatric astrocytoma of different histological grades. The Affymetrix HTA 2.0 array showed expression changes on one hundred-sixty two and two hundred-fifteen long non-coding RNAs in tumors (versus the control) and in GBM (versus low-grade astrocytoma), respectively.
Project description:Shotgun proteomics using LC-high resolution tandem mass spectrometry was applied to check the protein expression profiles of C2C12 myotubes in control group (treated with solvent control 0.1% DMSO), C26 medium group (treated with conditioned medium of C26 tumor cells for 48 h), CS group (treated with car-nosol at 20 μM for 48 h) and C26+CS group (treated with conditioned medium of C26 tumor cells in the presence of 20 μM carnosol for 48 h). Samples of three independent experiments were collected.
Project description:To study the effect of myoblast-derived paracrine factors on cardiomyocyte gene expression, microarray analysis was performed from isolated rat fetal cardiomyocyte cultures. These cultures were treated for 24 hours with fresh culture medium (control), skeletal myoblast-conditioned medium, or cardiac fibroblast-conditioned medium.
