Project description:Transcriptome profiling was performed on muscle biopsies from patients immediately before Total Knee Arthroplasty and two hours after TKA and tourniquet application.
Project description:Ischaemic preconditioning is a method of protecting tissue against ischaemia-reperfusion injury. It is an innate protective mechanism that increases a tissue's tolerance to prolonged ischaemia when it is first subjected to short burst of ischaemia and reperfusion. It is thought to provide this protection by increasing the tissue's tolerance to ischaemia, therby reducing oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis in the preconditioned tissue. We used microarrays to investigate the genomic response induced by ischaemic preconditioning in muscle biopsies taken from the operative leg of total knee arthroplasty patients in order to gain insight into the ischaemic preconditioning mechanism. Patients undergoing primary knee arthroplasty were randomised to control and treatment (ischaemic preconditioning) groups. Patients in the treatment group received a preconditioning stimulus immediately prior to surgery. The ischaemic preconditioning stimulus consisted of three five-minute periods of tourniquet insufflation on the lower operative limb, interrupted by five minute periods of reperfusion. All patients had a tourniquet applied to the lower limb after the administration of spinal anaesthesia, as per normal protocol for knee arthroplasty surgery. Muscle biopsies were taken from the quadriceps muscle of the operative knee at the immediate onset of surgery (T0) and at 1 hour into surgery (T1). Total RNA was extracted from biospies of four control and four treatment patients and hybridised to the Affymetrix Human U133 2.0 chip.
Project description:Human cartilage taken from young normal knees following anterior cruciate ligament repair and osteoarthritic cartilage following total knee arthroplasty. Total RNA extracted using mirVana miRNA isolation kit (Life Technologies). The Affymetrix Flash Tag labelling kit was used to prepare samples for hybridisation onto Affymetrix miRNA 4.0 arrays.
Project description:Human cartilage taken from young normal knees following anterior cruciate ligament repair and osteoarthritic cartilage; old normal (protected) and old osteoarthritic (unprotected) following total knee arthroplasty. Total RNA extracted using mirVana miRNA isolation kit (Life Technologies). The Affymetrix Flash Tag labelling kit was used to prepare samples for hybridisation onto Affymetrix miRNA 4.0 arrays.
Project description:To investigate the physiologic responses of whole osteoarthritic synovium to cycle tensile strain. We obtained 3 matched synovial tissue samples from 6 patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, subjected them to cyclic tensile strain, and then performed gene expression profiling analysis using RNA seq from each cyclic tensile strain protocol.
Project description:These data are from a preclinical model of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) performed in healthy rats. One day after surgery, ipsilateral dorsal root ganglia (DRG) from L3 and L4 were collected for RNA extraction and sequencing.
Project description:Ischaemic preconditioning is a method of protecting tissue against ischaemia-reperfusion injury. It is an innate protective mechanism that increases a tissue's tolerance to prolonged ischaemia when it is first subjected to short burst of ischaemia and reperfusion. It is thought to provide this protection by increasing the tissue's tolerance to ischaemia, therby reducing oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis in the preconditioned tissue. We used microarrays to investigate the genomic response induced by ischaemic preconditioning in muscle biopsies taken from the operative leg of total knee arthroplasty patients in order to gain insight into the ischaemic preconditioning mechanism.
