Project description:We report the human homologous microRNA profiles in food-grade, bovine-sourced sirloin, heart and adrenal tissue (raw, cooked, and laboratory-prepared pasteurized, freeze-dried extracts)
Project description:We report the human homologous microRNA profiles in food-grade, bovine-sourced sirloin, heart and adrenal tissue (raw, cooked, and laboratory-prepared pasteurized, freeze-dried extracts) Deep miRNA sequencing of sirloin (raw and cooked), heart tissue (raw, cooked, and pastuerized, freeze-dried extracts) and adrenal tissue (raw, cooked, and laboratory-prepared pasteurized, freeze-dried extracts), 3 replicates each process group
Project description:Yamoa⢠is marketed and sold as a dietary supplement with anecdotal positive effects in asthma and hay fever. We determined that Yamoa⢠(ground bark of Funtumia elastica tree) stimulated innate immunity in part by affecting gamma delta T cells. Yamoa⢠had distinct priming effects, very similar to, but more robust than, that of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), on bovine, mouse and human gamma delta T cells. However, the optimal effect was dependent on the presence of accessory cells. Gene expression patterns in bovine gamma delta T cells and monocytes induced by Yamoa⢠were very similar to those induced by ultrapure LPS, but the agonists in Yamoa⢠did not signal entirely through TLR4. Yamoa⢠stimulated human cells to produce cytokines involved innate protection. The bioactive component of Yamoa⢠was delineated to a complex polysaccharide fraction (Yam-I). Intraperitoneal injection of Yamoa⢠and very low doses of Yam-I in mice induced rapid increases peritoneal neutrophils directed by changes chemokine expression. Yamoa⢠and Yam-I were effective as therapeutic treatments in mice with Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (ST) induced enterocolitis that resulted in decreased bacterial counts in feces. This initial characterization of the immune stimulatory properties of polysaccharides derived from Yamoa⢠suggests potential mechanisms for positive effects in asthma and that they have potential for application in infectious disease settings. . Experiment Overall Design: To begin to understand the effects of Yamoa in innate immunity, we investigated the global gene expression profiles of stimulated bovine gamma delta T cells. Peripheral blood from 3 neonatal bovine calves was collected. gamma delta T cells were sorted to >97% purity using a FACS Vantage. Cells were placed in culture and stimulated with either an aqueous extract of Yamoa (32.6ug/ml), ultrapure LPS [uLPS (10ug/ml)] or PBS for 4 hours after which RNA was extracted and processed for microarray analysis.
Project description:In this study we have tried to utilize the unique aspects of the T. ruralis response to desiccation and rehydration to design a strategy to identify rehydrins that are of low abundance and perhaps completely novel to the desiccated or rehydration transcriptomes. We have constructed two Subtractive Suppression Hybridization (SSH) libraries (Diatchenko et al., 1996) that are designed to enrich for differentially expressed low-abundance transcripts contained within gametophytic cells either in the slow-dried state (mRNP sequestrated rehydrin transcripts) or cells that have been rapidly dried, rehydrated and sampled at 2h of hydration (rehydrin and recovery transcripts) when the translational change in gene expression is at its peak (Oliver 1991). To achieve this aim we constructed SSH libraries using PolyA RNA isolated from the polysomal (mRNP) fractions from the slow-dried and 2h rehydrated rapid dried gametophytes selected against PolyA RNA from hydrated control gametophytes as the source for driver cDNA. Collections of cDNA clones from each library were sequenced and used to generate a small T. ruralis SSH cDNA microarray for expression profiling of both total RNA extracts for transcript accumulation assessments and polysomal RNA extracts for transcript sequestration and recruitment assessments.
Project description:Beyond the DNA sequence difference between humans and closely related apes, there are large differences in the environments that these species experience. One prominent example for this is diet. The human diet diverges from those of other primates in various aspects, such as having a high calorie and protein content, as well as being cooked. Here, we used a laboratory mouse model to identify gene expression differences related to dietary differences. Keywords: diet
Project description:Beyond the DNA sequence difference between humans and closely related apes, there are large differences in the environments that these species experience. One prominent example for this is diet. The human diet diverges from those of other primates in various aspects, such as having a high calorie and protein content, as well as being cooked. Here, we used a laboratory mouse model to identify gene expression differences related to dietary differences. Keywords: diet
Project description:In this study, we analyzed both together the epithelial tissue and the secreted mucus response using a holistic interactome-based multi-omics approach. The effect of the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) skin mucosa to a dietary inclusion of spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP) was evaluated.
Project description:The bryophyte was collected and dried. Aqueous extract was prepared and different concentration of the extracts were treat against Ascardia galli, chicken nematode and Trichostrongylus, sheep nematode. Control was maintained for both. The control and treated samples were further processed to study the gene expression by isolating and sequencing mRNA using Illumina next-gen sequencing.